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FIC Reports
The U.S. Citizen Soldier and the Global War on Terror
— This study provides a composite view of reflections by U.S. veterans from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq on their experiences in the Global War on Terror. It draws on interviews with soldiers, their families, and their communities, and on materials that the soldiers themselves have written describing their experiences. Its opening section contains excerpts from four individuals, reproduced in some detail to convey the richness and diversity of views. The experiences of the four also surface throughout the body of the report, where their reflections are, to one extent or another, echoed by the comments of scores of others from the ranks.
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Agenda humanitaire à l'horizon 2015 -- principes, pouvoir et perceptions
— Ce rapport est une synthèse des résultats de la première phase d'un projet de recherche de grande envergure sur les défis et les difficultés susceptibles d'affecter l'action humanitaire au cours de la prochaine décennie.
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Humanitarian Agenda 2015 -- Afghanistan Country Study
— The four themes of the HA 2015 research come together in Afghanistan with clear-cut relevance.
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Human Security and Livelihoods of Rural Afghans
— This report documents and analyzes recent countrywide trends in the relationship between human security and livelihoods throughout rural Afghanistan from 2002-2003. All countrywide information is generated by analyses of 2003 Nationwide Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA) survey data. All analyses of NRVA data, unless otherwise noted, are conducted by the Tufts University team. In addition, the report includes detailed analyses on six provinces based on primary research by the Tufts team in Badghis, Balkh, Herat, Kabul, Kandahar, and Nangarhar.
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Mapping the Security Environment
— The data presented and analyzed by the study in three cases-Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone-offers intriguing and provocative look at the wide-ranging security needs of local communities and the uneven extent to which these are understood and responded to by major international institutions. The voices of local communities are not being heard, much less "priviledged", by outside actors. The dominant voices in transition environments instead are those of peace support operations (PSOs) and assistance agencies (AAs). Even the voice of government is often muffled. Such a disconnect has major implications: if the perceptions of local communities were to be the entry point for outside actor engagement or the benchmark for the effectiveness of international assistance and peace support, a major re-thinking of the ways PSOs and AA's operate would be required.
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Food Insecurity in Afghanistan 1999-2002
— This report seeks to explain why currently there is vulnerability to food insecurity in Afghanistan and how vulnerable individuals, households and communities are coping with food insecurity. Based on this analysis, recommendations for a principled strategy of humanitarian assistance are made to USAID.
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FIC Briefing Papers
Afghanistan -- Humanitarianism under Threat
— Based on extensive field interviews in Afghanistan, this briefing paper is an update of a 2006 study on perceptions of humanitarian action in Afghanistan, which was part of the Humanitarian Agenda 2015 research program. The paper highlights critical issues affecting the provision of humanitarian action and suggests how they could, partially at least, be redressed.
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Other Publications by FIC Faculty
Subnational Administration and State Building -- Lessons from Afghanistan
— By Sarah Lister and Andrew Wilder. Chapter 12 in Derick W. Brinkerhoff (ed.), Governance in Post-Conflict Societies: Rebuilding Fragile States. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
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State-Building at the Subnational Level in Afghanistan -- A Missed Opportunity
— By Andrew Wilder and Sarah Lister. In Wolfgang Danspeckgruber with Robert P. Finn (eds.), Building State and Security in Afghanistan. Princeton: Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, November, 2007.
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Afghan Women, Afghan Livelihoods
— By Elizabeth Stites. In Adam Pain and Jackie Sutton (eds.), Reconstructing Agriculture in Afghanistan. Warwickshire, UK: Practical Action Publishing and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 2007.
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The Politics of Civil Service Reform in Pakistan
— By Andrew Wilder. Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2009. 19-37.
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Cops or Robbers? The Struggle to Reform the Afghan National Police
— By Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2007.
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Strengthening Subnational Administration in Afghanistan -- Technical Reform or State-Building?
— By Sarah Lister and Andrew Wilder. Public Administration and Development, 25, 1-10, 2005.
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A House Divided? Analysing the 2005 Afghan Elections
— By Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, December 2005.
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Free, Fair or Flawed -- Challenges for Legitimate Elections in Afghanistan
— By Andrew Reynolds and Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, September 2004.
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Subnational Administration in Afghanistan -- Assessment and Recommendations for Action
— By Anne Evans, Nick Manning, Yasin Osmani, Anne Tully and Andrew Wilder. Kabul: Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit and the World Bank, 2004.
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