All events, except outside events, are held at the Afghanistan Studies Group’s host institution: the War Studies Department at King’s College London. For more details on the department and it’s activities, or for further information on undergraduate and graduate studies please visit the departmental website.
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Upcoming Events
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External Events
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Past Afghanistan Studies Group Events
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18 November 2009 - ’Afghan Reality’, Jean Mackenzie, Programme Director, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Kabul.
20 October 2010 - ’The War for Helmand’, Prof Theo Farrell, War Studies Dept., King’s College London.
24 November 2010 - ’Afghanistan’s Security and Development: A Grassroots, Fieldwork Perspective Focussing on Legitimate Grievances’, Jorrit Kaminga, Director of Policy Research, International Council on Security and Development.
1 December 2010 - ’The Afghan-Pashtun Way of War: A Contested History’, Dr Robert Johnson, History Faculty, Oxford University.
Listen to a podcast interview with Dr Johnson here
5 September 2011 – ‘US Withdrawal: Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Strategic Options’, Ahmed Rashid, writer and journalist.
25 September 2011 – ‘The Art of Coercion’, Dr Antonio Giustozzi, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, War Studies Dept., KCL.
26 September 2011 – ‘Afghanaid’s Work and Engagement with Afghan Women’, Farhana Faruqi Stocker, Managing Director, Afghanaid.
22 November 2011 - The Asia Foundation, ‘Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People’.
23 November 2011 - Jonathan Steele, ‘Afghanistan: The Way Out’, (co-hosted with the Centre for the Study of Political Community).
14 December 2011 - Mike Martin, ‘Helmandi History, Dynamics, and the Current Campaign’
25 January 2012 – Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, Book Launch of ‘An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger 1970-2010′
2 February 2012 – Lucy Morgan Edwards, ‘The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, The CIA and how Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan’
7 February, 2012 – Bijan Omrani, ‘The Durand Line: A frontier out of date?’
8 February, 2012 - Dr Mohammad Khan Kharoti, ‘The Role of Education in Rural Afghanistan: Democracy and educated mothers in the case of Nad-e Ali District, Helmand’