Security Development And Violence In Afghanistan

Author : Althea-Maria Rivas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315306414

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Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan by Althea-Maria Rivas Pdf

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities. Analysis of the international intervention in Afghanistan following the post 9/11 invasion in 2001, one of the largest and most expensive in history, tends to focus on the perspective of organisational dynamics and policies or external actors. Drawing on the author’s five years of experience living, researching and working in Afghanistan, this book uses ethnographic methodologies to explore the micro-level interactions between different actors, showing how communities, local leaders, aid workers, UN officials, military and others navigated shifting security, development, and conflict dynamics. Starting with a contextual introduction to the intervention and the key debates surrounding it, this book goes on to explore the stories of security, development, and violence as constructed through official policy discourse, and then through the lived experiences of interveners and local actors. The book weaves a compelling narrative which links local and global issues and focuses on the everyday practices, relationships and acts of resistance which take place in two provinces of Afghanistan. Finally, the author highlights what this book’s findings mean both for what we know about Afghanistan and for how we understand international interventions and the everyday dynamics between actors who live and work in spaces of conflict. Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan: Everyday Stories of Intervention will be of considerable interest to scholars and professionals with an interest in Afghanistan, aid work, humanitarian intervention, development studies, and peace and conflict studies.

Author : Michael Vinay Bhatia,Mark Sedra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134054220

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Afghanistan, Arms and Conflict by Michael Vinay Bhatia,Mark Sedra Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of small arms and security-related issues in post-9/11 Afghanistan.

Author : Danielle Beswick,Paul Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136680342

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Conflict, Security and Development by Danielle Beswick,Paul Jackson Pdf

This textbook draws on academic theory, field research and policy developments to provide an overview of the connections between security and development, before, during and after conflict.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814462754

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Human Security: From Concept to Practice by Anonim Pdf

Author : L. Andersen,B. Møller,F. Stepputat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230605572

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Fragile States and Insecure People? by L. Andersen,B. Møller,F. Stepputat Pdf

This book provides a unique account of the pursuit of security at the edge of the global order. It sheds light on reform of state police and armed forces, and analyses the alternative security structures that emerge in the absence of the state. This book remains open-minded as to which 'model' for security is better.

Author : Neamatollah Nojumi,Dyan Mazurana,Elizabeth Stites
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742557260

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After the Taliban by Neamatollah Nojumi,Dyan Mazurana,Elizabeth Stites Pdf

To access the maps mentioned in this book, Click Here. Despite the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan remains a country in dire need of strong international support. Only with an understanding of the conditions in both urban and rural areas will the international community be able to offer aid and remain committed to long-term development. This fascinating and clearly written book mines a rich and unique array of data, which was collected in rural areas of Afghanistan by an expert team of researchers, to analyze countrywide trends in the relationship between human security and livelihoods. The team's research and recommendations, published here for the first time, suggest that international assistance or national development strategies that ignore the long-term developmental and structural goals and sideline the moderate elements of Afghan society will be doomed to failure. The authors' deeply informed policy recommendations will help to focus further action on vital issues such as co-optation of aid by armed political groups; water scarcity; contamination and degradation of the environment; education; health care; agriculture, livestock, and land health; and justice. A valuable resource for students, policymakers, donor governments, and national and international organizations, After the Taliban opens a rare window into the otherwise hidden lives of the people of rural Afghanistan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105210716945

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State Building, Security and Social Change in Afghanistan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ben Walter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317265191

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Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan by Ben Walter Pdf

This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan. It engages with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for understanding and redressing conflict. The book argues that this concept allows the possibility of articulating the substantive experiences of violence and marginalisation experienced by people in local settings as well as their own struggles towards a secure and happy life. In this regard, it goes a long way to making sense of the complex dynamics of conflict which have confounded Western policy-makers in their ongoing state-building mission in Afghanistan. However, despite this inherent potential, the idea of human security still needs refinement. Crucially, it has benefitted from critical feminist and critical social theories which provide the conceptual and methodological depth necessary to apprehend what a progressive ethical program of security looks like and how it can be furthered. Using this framework, the work provides a critical reconstruction of the effect of the US-led Western Intervention on women’s experiences of (in)security in the three provincial contexts of Nangarhar, Bamiyan and Kabul. This reconstruction is drawn from a wealth of historical and contemporary sociological research alongside original fieldwork undertaken in Delhi, India, during 2011 with women and men from the country’s different communities. This book will be of much interest to students of human security, state-building, gender politics, war and conflict studies and IR in general.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D02855103Q

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Assessment of Security and Stability in Afghanistan and Development in U.S. Strategy and Operations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Conflict of interests
ISBN : UCSD:31822037074879

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Conflict, Security, and Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Picciotto,Rachel Weaving
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317999065

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Security and Development by Robert Picciotto,Rachel Weaving Pdf

The new contributions in this book, by acknowledged leaders in the field, examine the delivery of effective aid under fire, and securing the peace in environments where governance is fragile. They bridge the cultural divide between the security and development professions at a time of unprecedented global economic integration, geopolitical turbulence, and novel threats to international peace and security. More than a billion people live in countries where governance is weak, poverty is rampant, and economies are depressed. Failed and frail states provide ideal breeding grounds for civil strife, criminality, and "new wars" that target civilians, use children as combatants, and commit massive human rights violations. The new security risks loom within national borders, while the capacity of the international community to intervene 'behind borders' remains inadequate. Policy making for security still relies heavily on military responses. Yet military responses cannot address, and may even worsen, the social and cultural antecedents of civil strife and social resentment. Similarly, development aid policy and practice are poorly adapted to the new realities of frail governance and insecure operating environments in aid recipient countries. This book was previously published as a special issue of the leading journal Conflict, Security and Development.

Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781955536

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Handbook of International Security and Development by Paul Jackson Pdf

Providing a comprehensive introduction to the literature and approaches used in the field, this illustrious Handbook explores and interrogates the link between security and development at a global level whilst offering a broad survey of current thinkin

Author : Farah Faizal,Swarna Rajagopalan
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015064777587

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Women, Security, South Asia by Farah Faizal,Swarna Rajagopalan Pdf

This book explores women's perspectives on matters of security and related policy, focusing on women in South Asia who are battling society, insecurity and violence in some form. The book makes three important contributions. First, it examines existing theories of security. Secondly, it goes beyond critique and narrative to seek concrete new agendas for empirical research in security studies. Finally, it brings together statistical, ethnographic and survey data.

Author : Aglaya Snetkov
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137330055

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The Regional Dimensions to Security by Aglaya Snetkov Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the perspective and approaches to Afghan security taken by the states bordering and in close proximity to Afghanistan, and the transnational dynamics that interconnect these states with Afghanistan and one another.

Author : Anthony H. Cordesman,Bryan Gold,Ashley Hess
Publisher : CSIS Reports
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442225017

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The Afghan War in 2013: Security and the ANSF by Anthony H. Cordesman,Bryan Gold,Ashley Hess Pdf

After more than a decade of fighting in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are set to transfer security responsibilities to Afghan forces in 2014. This transition poses many challenges, and much will depend on the future of Afghan politics, governance, corruption, development, security, and economics. How the United States manages the transition is vital for any hopes of creating a secure Afghanistan, as well as preventing the reemergence of the Taliban and other terrorist groups. The Afghan War in 2013 honestly assesses the benefits, costs, and risks involved in transition. It is essential reading for an in-depth understanding of the complex forces and intricacies of the United States' role in Afghanistan and the difficulties involved in creating a stable Afghanistan in 2014 and beyond. Afghanistan is still at war and will probably be at war long after 2014. At the same time, the coming cuts in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and cuts in military and civil aid, along with the country's fractious politics and insecurity, will interact with a wide range of additional factors that threaten to derail the transition. These factors, examined in this three-volume study, highlight the need to make the internal political, governmental, economic, and security dimensions of the transition as effective as possible. This will require a new degree of realism about what the Afghans can and cannot accomplish, about the best approaches to shaping the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), and the need for better planned and managed outside aid.