Emerging Afghanistan in the Third Millennium
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Reconstruction and peace building: 1. Political transformation in Afghanistan/Abdul Ghafoor Liwal. 2. Issues of ethnicity in Afghanistan/Nasrine Gross. 3. Afghan women, violence and abuse of human rights/Marium Rawi. 4. Displaced population from Afghanistan: A case study of Delhi/Mondira Dutta and Pramod Kumar Sharma. 5. The triangular paradigm: child labour, education and poverty in Afghanistan/Saurabh Sharma. 6. Challenges to peace building in contemporary Afghanistan/Arpita Basu Roy. 7. Status of health in Afghanistan--post 9/11/Mohammad Bashaar. II. Strategic and security concerns: 8. Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations--post 9/11 and its implications/A.P.S. Chauhan and Sudhir Singh. 9. Afghanistans political transition and its impact on reconstruction/Nilofar Sakhi. 10. The turmoil in Afghanistan and regional security/Afsir Karim. 11. War on terrorism in Afghanistan: US policy and responses/Sanjeev Bhadauria. 12. Durand line--rising geopolitical stakes in US's war on terror/Ambrish Dhaka and Manash Ranjan Mishra. 13. Afghanistan's Narcotics Dilemma/Haroun Mir. 14. Pakistan-Afghanistan relations/Savita Pande. 15. The future of Taliban/Kalim Bahadur. 16. Afghanistan: concerns of the periphery/P.L. Dash. 17. Afghanistan: facts and problems/Wadir Safi. 18. Afghan reconstruction amidst Chaos/Chintamani Mahapatra. 19. Afghanistan in US strategic calculations: the post 9/11 regional geopolitical dynamics/Jagmohan Meher. 20. Resurgence of Taliban in Afghanistan: implications for India and Pakistan/Nalini Kant Jha. 21. Resurgent Afghanistan: implications for India/Prashant Agarwal. III. Aid Effectiveness and International Initiatives: 22. Geopolitical lessons of Afghanistan for the international community/Farkhod Tolipov. 23. India's role in reconstruction process and political transformation in Afghanistan/Anil Bhat. 24. US role in Afghanistan's reconstruction and political transformation/Saleem Kidwai. 25. Mainstreaming the gender in democratization of Afghanistan: the role of United Nations/Yeshi Choedon. Index.
"This book essentially draws on a collection of articles presented at the two day International Conference on "Reconstruction Process in Afghanistan," held in New Delhi, on April 23-24, 2008. The conference was sponsored by the Ministry of External Affairs and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and was attended by scholars, activists, NGOs practitioners, government officials, Diplomats, Ambassadors and the Ministry of External Affairs. Covering a wide range of issues ranging from economy and society to strategic and security concerns, the book gives a deep insight into the ground realities of Afghanistan.
India has been one of the fore runners in the reconstruction process of Afghanistan and is among the top five countries who are actively participating in the reconstruction process. India's pledge towards Afghanistan's reconstruction process has now reached to the tune of 1.2 billion US$. Nevertheless human security continues to be a haunting problem in Afghanistan even today. The tremendous loss of lives, the continued food insecurity, the displacement of approximately six million people and the disabling of three million, in addition to the severe reduction in social services, continue unabated.
It is exactly seven years since the Bonn Agreement was signed. What are the ground realities today? How far have the objectives been met with? How secure is Afghanistan today? What are the major security concerns and how to address these? These were some of the issues which were deliberated at the international conference and have been captured through articles meticulously presented by international and national scholars of repute. This book will be of immense use to the researchers, academicians and the policy makers." (jacket)
