Afghanistan The Mirage of Peace

Widely portrayed as the "success of the war on terror," Afghanistan is now in crisis. Increasingly detached from the people it is meant to serve, and unable to manage the massive amounts of aid that it has sought, the administration in Kabul struggles to govern even the diminishing areas of the country over which it has some sway. Many Afghans feel themselves to be trapped, hostage between two forces, both claiming to be their liberators. Drawing on long experience of living and working in Afghanistan, Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie examine what the changes of recent years have meant in terms of Afghans' sense of their own identity and hopes for the future.

Chris Johnson lived in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2004. She first worked for Oxfam, then set up a joint UN/NGO/donor research unit, the Afghanistan research and Evaluation Unit, where she worked until early 2002. She then undertook a wide range of consultancy work for different organizations concerned with the transition. She now works for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.

Jolyon Leslie is an architect who has lived and worked in Afghanistan since 1989. He currently manages an urban conservation program in Kabul and Herat.

Four years on	p. 1
The mirage of peace	p. 19
Identity and society	p. 41
Ideology and difference	p. 81
One size fits all - Afghanistan in the new world order	p. 102
The makings of a narco state?	p. 128
State	p. 153
Bonn and beyond : part I : the political transition	p. 173
Bonn and beyond, part II : the governance transition	p. 198
Concluding thoughts	p. 227
Who's who	p. 235
Parties	p. 239
An Afghan chronology	p. 240
Further reading	p. 242
References	p. 243
Index	p. 248
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