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Is The Era Of State Building Over?

Jon Western | November 4, 2010

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A celebration of peacebuilding

30-Nov-2010

International Alert

It’s not often that we get a chance to celebrate the culmination of our peacebuilding achievements, but last week in Brussels, International Alert celebrated the end of its three-year project, the Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP). The finale, which was held in a unique Moorish “folly” in the centre of Brussels, was a chance for  Alert and partners to highlight the Initiative’s “Milestones on the Road to Peace” as well as draw attention to the human dimension of our work.

Las verdaderas razones por las que estamos en Afganistán

Bretigne Shaffer
LewRockwell.com

Así pues, los incondicionales de la guerra se dedican ahora a hacernos creer que están más interesados por el bienestar de los civiles afganos que quienes anhelan que se ponga fin a la ocupación estadounidense.

Lynne O'Donnell, "Kabul conference marks transition to Afghan leadership", AFP, LSE.com, 19 de julio 2010

"Afghanistan is set to host a key international conference in Kabul on Tuesday, aiming to chart a course for the war-torn country's future and show supporters it is acting on past pledges."

Para más información:

Kabul International Conference on Afghanistan - Ministry of Foreign Affairs Afghanistan

Kabul Conference - United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)

• Spanish tv series on the Afghan war (El País)
• Steady demobilization in Darfur (UN News)
• Secretary General on RCA and its Integrated Peacebuilding Office [pdf] (UN)
• Rock in Afghanistan (Huffington Post)

• Building the "post-conflict moment" in Kyrgyzstan (Internews)
• Demining Afghanistan: a simulacrum's reflection (UN News Centre)
• Cutting aid to Afghanistan to end with corruption [pdf] (US House of Representatives)
• Wallerstein on COIN (Fernand Braudel Center)
• MONUC is dead, Long life MONUSCO? (UN News Centre)

• Failed nation-building in Kyrgyzstan (Ferghana)
• Post-conflict land reform in Nepal [pdf] (Carter Center)
• Transcultural negotiation as counterinsurgency (Wired)
• Challenges for reintegration of ex-combatants in Southern Sudan [pdf] (Small Arms Survey)

• New PeacE discussion: Justice as dilemma in liberal peacebuilding (PRIO)
• Stephen Colbert mocks the Afghan mining resources issue (Colbert Nation)
• DDR begins in Northern Ivory Coast (UN News Centre)
• The 2010 Failed States Index (Foreign Policy)
• UN Secretary General report on Afghanistan (UN)

Afghanistan: deux sociétés de sécurité sanctionnées, Le Nouvel Observateur, 9 mayo 2010.

"Deux sociétés privées de sécurité ont été sanctionnées, dimanche 9 mai, par les autorités afghanes après avoir tué deux civils par erreur. Cette annonce faite par le ministère afghan de l'Intérieur marque la fin d'une certaine impunité."

Dimite el presidente alemán tras unas polémicas declaraciones sobre Afganistán, Público, 31 mayo 2010.

"Horst Köhler manifestó que las misiones del ejército alemán en el extranjero tienen su justificación también por los intereses económicos de Alemania".