Afghanistan
Swiss peacebuilding activities
After the overthrow of the Taliban regime in 2001, the Bonn Agreement paved the way for the Afghan reconstruction and state-building process. Since then, Afghanistan has witnessed an influx of a variety of international actors, including Swiss governmental and non-governmental organizations. The Swiss actors have been actively engaged in the field of social & economic development, re-integration of refugees, rule of law, good governance, the promotion of human rights, civil society building and humanitarian aid. Geographically, their interventions are focused in the north of the country, although other regions are also being covered. However, increasing insecurity poses new challenges to reconstruction work and humanitarian assistance, particularly in the southern parts of the country.
KOFF activities
A KOFF Afghanistan Roundtable has been running since 2006. It brings together Swiss non-governmental and governmental organisations but also other key-players like academia and the Diaspora living in Switzerland. The thematic foci of the KOFF Afghanistan Roundtable range from highly topical, political questions on the ground to questions of complementarity and coherence among Swiss governmental and non-governmental actors and strategies.