Dr Astri Suhrke is a political scientist and a senior researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. She has written widely on conflict and peacebuilding, both generally and with particular reference to Afghanistan. She is the author of When more is less: The international project in Afghanistan (Hurst, 2011).

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Accord Issue 27: Afghanistan

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