Reports and Documents
Key Documents
Afghanistan National Development Strategy
Afghanistan Compact, 2006
Constitution of Afghanistan, Ratified January 26, 2004
Bonn Agreements Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-establishment of Permanent Government Institutions, 2001
Security Council Resolutions:
1659 (2006) Confirmation of the Results of the Afghanistan Conference in London
1510 (2003 The situation in Afghanistan
1444 (2002) The situation in Afghanistan
1413 (2002) The situation in Afghanistan
1383 (2001) on the situation in Afghanistan
1378 (2001) on the situation in Afghanistan
1373 (2001) Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts
1368 (2001) Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts
UN
UNDP Newsletter 2007
UNDP Afghanistan National Human Development Report 2007 Bridging Modernity and Tradition - The Rule of Law and the Search for Justice
UNODC Afghanistan Opium Survey 2007
UNODC Afghanistan's Drug Industry 2006
Afghanistan Millennium Development Goals Report 2005
UNDP Afghanistan National Human Development Report 2004 Security with a Human Face: Challenges and Responsibilities
Research
Afghanistan Survey 2006 Afghanistan in 2006. A Survey of the Afghan People. The Asia Foundation.
Selected Policy and Academic Writing
Asien. Identities in Afghanistan. Afghan Identities. July 2007. No 104. Download.
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APUZ). Afghanistan und Pakistan. No 39. October 2007. Download.
Byrd, William and Christopher Ward. Drugs and Development in Afghanistan. Working Paper No. 18. Washington DC: World Bank. Social Development Papers: Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction 2004. Download.
Chouvy, Pierre-Arnaud. Afghan Opium: License to Kill (Licensing Afghanistan's Opium: Solution or Fallacy?).The China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly Vol. 4 No.1 February 2006. Download.
Daulatzai, Anila. Acknowledging Afghanistan: Notes and Queries of an Occupation. Cultural Dynamics 18. 2006. Download.
Giustozzi, Antonio. Tribes and Warlords in Southern Afghanistan, 1980-2005. Working Paper No. 7. London: Crisis State Research Centre 2006. Download.
Glatzer, Bernt. The Pashtun Tribal System, in Georg Pfeffer and Deepak Kumar Behera (eds.): Concepts of Tribal Society. Delhi: Concept Publishers 2002, pp. 265-282. Download.
Glatzer, Bernt. War and Boundaries in Afghanistan: Significance of Local and Social Boundaries. Leiden: Welt des Islams, 41(3) 2001, pp. 379-99. Download.
Hamidzada, Humayun, Barnett R. Rubin and Abby Stoddard. Afghanistan 2005 and Beyond: Prospects for Improved Stability Reference Document. Clingendael: Conflict Research Unit 2005. Download.
International Crisis Group: various reports on current topics regarding the political reconstruction process and security in Afghanistan
Lister, Sarah. Caught in Confusion: Local Governance Structures in Afghanistan. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit. Briefing Paper March 2005. Download.
Nixon, Hamish. International Assistance and Governance in Afghanistan. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Foundation 2007. Download.
Rubin, Barnett: Saving Afghanistan. Foreign Affairs. January/February 2007. Download.
Ruttig, Thomas. Islamists, Leftists - and a Void in the Center: Afghanistan's Political Parties and Where They Came From, 1902-2006. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Afghanistan Office 2006. Download.
Schetter, Conrad. Ethnicity and Political Reconstruction in Afghanistan. Bonn: Center for Development Research (ZEF) and the Development Research Centre, London School of Economics. Paper presented at the symposium: State Reconstruction and International Engagement in Afghanistan 2003. Download.
Schetter, Conrad; Rainer Glassner and Masood Karokhail. Understanding Local Violence: Security Arrangements in Kandahar, Kunduz and Paktia. Amu Darya Series. Paper No. 3. Bonn: Center for Development Research May 2006. Download.
Suhrke, Astri. The Limits of Statebuilding. The Role of International Assistance in Afghanistan. San Diego: Chr. Michelsen Institute 2006. Download.
swisspeace 2007. Private Security Companies and Local Populations: An Exploratory Study of Afghanistan and Angola
Executive Summary; Full version.
Official Afghan Websites
Afghanistan Development Forum 2007
Afghan Embassy in Washington D.C.
Afghanistan Government Website
Afghanistan Office of the President
Other Actors
UN & NATO
Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations (FAO)
NATO
NATO ISAF
United Nations (UN)
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP Program
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Homepage Return to Afghanistan (UNHCR)
UNICEF
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
World Food Programme
World Health Organisation (WHO)
International Governments
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Canadian Government
European Union
European Union - Commission Delegation to Afghanistan
France - Ministry of Defense
Germany - Federal Government
Germany - Federal Foreign Office
Great Britain - British Council Afghanistan
Japan - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo Conference 2002
Netherlands - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway - the official site in Afghanistan
Switzerland - Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
United Kingdom - Foreign and Commonwealth Office
USA - Department of State
USA - Department of Defense
IGOs/INGOs
Amnesty International - Report 2007
Amnesty International - Report 2006
Asian Development Bank
British Agencies Afghanistan Group (BAAG)
Canadian International Development Agency
Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR)
Department for International Development (DFID)
Development Gateway Foundation
GTZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) (German)
Human Rights Watch
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Norwegian Afghanistan Committee (NAC)
Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA)
USAID
World Bank
National NGOs
Afghan Aid
Afghan Civil Society Forum
Afghan Development Association (ADA)
Afghan Family Guidance Association (AFGA)
Afghan Health & Development Services (AHDS)
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)
Afghan Institute for Learning (AIL)
Afghan Women's Resource Center (AWRC)
Afghans for Civil Society
Afghan's Women Network (AWN)
Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR)
Cooperation Center for Afghanistan (CCA)
Co-operation for Peace and Unity (CPaU)
Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA)
Help the Afghan Children
Partners in Revitalization and Building (PRB)
Revolutionary Association of the Woman of Afghanistan (RAWA)
Sanayee Development Organization (SDO)
The Committee for Rehabilitation Aid to Afghanistan (CRAA)
Academic and Research Institutions
Afghanistan Institut, Switzerland
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Afghanistan (AGA)
Center for International Cooperation, Afghanistan Reconstruction Project
Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen
Friedrich-Ebert Foundation
Heinrich-Böll Foundation, Dossier: Afghanistan - Civil Reconstruction, Military Peace-Keeping and Political Development
Institute for Afghan Studies (IAS)
International Crisis Group, Afghanistan
Kabul University, Afghanistan Center
Konrad-Adenauer Foundation, Afghanistan Office
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Dossier Afghanistan
London School of Economics, Crisis States Research Center
swisspeace
swisspeace FAST Early Warning: Afghanistan
swisspeace KOFF: Focus country Afghanistan
swisspeace Business & Peace
University of Bochum, Institute for Development Research and Development Policy
University of Bonn, Center for Development Research - Local Governance and Statehood in the Amu Darya Region
University of Kassel