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Dangerous liaisons with the Afghan Taliban : the feasibility and risks of negotiations / Matt Waldman.
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Waldman, Matt
- Series:
- Special report (United States Institute of Peace) ; 256.
- Special report ; 256
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Taliban.
- Insurgency--Afghanistan.
- Insurgency.
- Negotiation--Afghanistan.
- Negotiation.
- Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes.
- Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (15, [1] pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Institute of Peace, [2010]
- Summary:
- This report is based on six months of field research between January and June 2010, funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace and Canadian Global Peace and Security Fund. The research involved separate, in-depth interviews with eighty individuals, mainly in Kabul and Kandahar, including fourteen insurgents, as well as former Taliban officials, diplomats, analysts, community and tribal leaders, and civil society representatives. It also involved forty interviews and ten focus groups with ordinary Afghans. To encourage frankness, and for safety reasons, most interviews were nonattributable. The aim was to better understand insurgent motivations and objectives, and in light of this, to assess the feasibility, risks, and implications of negotiations. The field research, which focused on the core Quetta Shura-led Taliban, faced constraints of access, verification, and insurgent differentiation. The findings should therefore be seen as a step toward understanding the movement, rather than anything more complete.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Taliban motivations and objectives
- Feasibility, risks, and implications of negotiations
- International and Afghan perspectives on negotiations
- Conditions for negotiations
- Building confidence
- Managing the process
- Spoilers
- Pakistan and the region
- Substance of an agreement
- Conclusions and recommendations.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed on October 20, 2010).
- "October 2010."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 15-16).
- OCLC:
- 671236258
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