Accord ISSUE
Available in
The following statements are taken from longer interviews with community members across two different rural districts in Balkh Province in northern Afghanistan, between November 2017 and March 2018, in which they were asked questions about their views on elections, peace and reconciliation. Respondents’ ages and ethnic groups vary. Data were collected by Abdul Hadi Sadat as part of a larger research project funded by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Dr Anna Larson is the Accord 27 Issue Editor and a Senior Teaching Fellow in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has worked as a researcher in Afghanistan, writing on politics, democratisation and peace in Afghanistan since 2005. Anna is co-author with Noah Coburn of Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape(Columbia, 2014), and holds a PhD in post-war recovery from the University of York.
Read more from Anna:
