This article explores the intersections between masculinity, migration and marital strategies through both a historical and ethnographic focus on the everyday lives of Turkmen men from Northern Afghanistan working in...

This article explores constructions of gender, masculinity, and class in moral crimes prosecutions, and their legal aftermaths in Afghanistan. It argues that the lack of attention to men in advocacy...

Human rights activists began to develop strategies for a transitional justice process in Afghanistan soon after the US-led intervention in 2001 and by mid-decade the efforts had culminated in an...

This article focuses on the emergence and evolution of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a pro-government militia supported by the US military in Wardak Province. The ALP and its previous...

This chapter focuses on the emergence and evolution of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a pro-government militia supported by the US military in Wardak Province. The ALP and its previous...

This report provides the first empirically-based and independent analysis of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) programme in Afghanistan. It examines how the ALP and its previous iterations evolved over time,...

This paper aims to explain the broader contours of the emerging fields of political power in contemporary Afghanistan and its implications for regional politics.

This report argues that billions of dollars in international assistance to Afghanistan in the past decade have created a rentier state that is unprecedented in the country's history and highly...

This report is a preliminary mapping of initiatives designed to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. It is a snapshot in time, focusing on practices or arrangements that were still...

Recent years have seen sustained focus on the prosecution of Afghan women and girls for ‘moral crimes’ such as adultery and ‘running away’. However, many Afghan men are also charged...

My doctoral research explores the role of government-backed militias in the security and political dynamics of three provincial settings (Wardak, Baghlan and Kunduz) and highlights the important role played by...

This article is a contribution to the Boston Review debate on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. It argues that when the problem is cast in combat terms—Afghanistan as a theater in the...

This article argues that the key issue confronting post-2001 Afghanistan is not so much which particular strongman should rule Afghanistan, but rather how. And the answer is devolution of power...