After the Taliban: Life and Security in Rural Afghanistan

Neamatollah Nojumi; Dyan Mazurana; Elizabeth Stites

doi:10.5771/9780742557260

Summary

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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.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2008
Copyright Year: 2008
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-4032-3
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7425-5726-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 309
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. List of Figures and Tables No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1: Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
2: Provincial Background and Overview No access Pages 13 - 26
1. 3: Physical Security No access
2. 4: Social Issues No access
3. 5: Women's Rights No access
4. 6: Family and Sexual Systems No access
5. 7: Peace No access
6. Part I: Concluding Thoughts: Seeking Security No access
1. 8: Livelihoods and Natural Resources No access
2. 9: Rural Livelihoods, Labor, and Income No access
3. 10: International Humanitarian Aid No access
4. Part II Concluding Thoughts: Linking Human Security and Livelihoods No access
1. 11: Formal Justice Systems No access
2. 12: Traditional and Customary Systems of Justice No access
3. Part III Concluding Thoughts: Strengthening Justice and Rule of Law Systems No access
4. 13:Moving toward Human Security No access
Afterword No access Pages 287 - 292
Select Bibliography No access Pages 293 - 300
Index No access Pages 301 - 306
About the Authors No access Pages 307 - 309