About the Conflict

For more information on the conflict in Afghanistan, visit the following websites:

 

Conflict History:

• Conflict History (International Crisis Group)
• Conflict Summary (Pearson Peacekeeping Centre)
• Afghanistan: UN Intervention (Parliamentary Research Service, 15 November 2007)
• A Country Study: Afghanistan (Library of Congress) (PDF)

 

Conflict Data and Summary:

• Afghanistan Civil War (Uppsala Conflict Data Program)
• United States vs. al-Qaeda (Uppsala Conflict Data Program)
• Location of the Three Major Fighting Fronts (from Jones, 2007, cited in Tellis, 2008)
• State 'Weakness' Indicators (Brookings Institution, 2008)

 

Conflict Timelines:

• Security Council Report

 

Security Situation Summaries:

• British American Security Information Council
• World Security Institute

 

Terrorist Groups:

• CDI Terrorism Project

 

Religious Actors:

• PRIO-CMI Project: Religious Civil Society in Afghanistan

 

Military Casualty Data:

• iCasualties.org

 

Political Risk Assessments:

• Newnations
• Political Risk Insurance Center
  

 

Humanitarian Facts and Figures:

• Reuters AlertNet
• Center for Excellence DMHA

 

Human Rights:

• Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch

 

Risk Assessments:

• Carleton University
  

 

International Criminal Law:

• Trial Watch

 

Afghan-Pakistan Border:

• Backgrounder: Parliamentary Research and Information Services (7 January 2008)
• Backgrounder: Council on Foreign Relations (29 November 2007)
• Backgrounder: Center for Strategic and International Studies (17 October 2007)
• Analysis: Survival (March 2006)

 

Minority Group Assessments (Minorities at Risk Project):

• Hazaras
• Pashtuns
• Tajiks
• Uzbeks

 

Afghanistan Maps:

• ReliefWeb
• Senlis Council
• University of Texas Library

 

Other:

• Sanctions on Taliban, Al-Qaeda (United Nations Security Council)
• Afghanistan Millennium Development Goals (United Nations Development Programme)
• Afghan and Regional Military Bases Used by U.S. Forces (Congressional Research Service)
• Afghanistan: System of Government (Backgrounder: Parliamentary Information and Research Service)
• Afghanistan: Foreign Policy (Department of National Defence, Canada)
• Afghanistan Bibliography (Afghanistan Analyst)

See also the Monitor's Data section.

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