About TFPI
TFPI has been registered in UK and Pakistan. TFPI is a network of concerned idealists who want to make a tangible contribution to achieving peace. We promote the use of dialogue and political engagement, backed up by practical interventions to improve people’s lives, as a way of transforming conflict. More »
PUBLICATIONS
TFPI promotes practical strategies to help achieve peace. We present these strategies in our own briefings and through materials published in a range of outlets. TFPI network members have published widely and are regularly interviewed in mainstream media. Download a selection of recent writing and media on strategies for peace. More »
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آفاق حوار بين طالبان وواشنطن بندوة في الدوحة
ندوة “الحوار بين الولايات المتحدة وطالبان إلى أين؟” تنظم من طرف منتدى العلاقات العربية والدولية
Response to academic questionnaire on the ‘Afghan Solution’
1) what factors do you think have contributed the most to the resurgence of the Taliban? How?
- The exclusion of the Taliban Movement from the 2001 peace settlement and the persecution of members of the Movement in the immediate aftermath of the toppling of their regime.
- The ideological commitment of the supporters of the Taliban Movement and the
Knowing the Taliban from verse and talk
Reflections on Publication of Poetry of the Taliban, by Alex Strick and Felix Kuehn
“Evening, the twilight arrives slowly with its lap full of red flowers;
Pink rays are spreading over the blush of sky.”
Taliban commander: “I was relieved at the death of Osama”
“Mawlvi”, a veteran Taliban commander, shares insights into the movement’s thinking, relations with Pakistan and Hamid Karzai’s future, in this exclusive interview from behind Afghanistan’s “iron curtain”. more
Comments on the Taliban statement at Kyoto Conference
- It confirms the expectation that the Taliban would use the platform created through Qatar and the international launching of the political commission to conduct political propaganda/communications on behalf of the movement. It is primarily a re-launch of the movement on the world stage and only secondarily a move towards “reconciliation”.
Bomb-proofing Afghan elections
In the absence of any credible roadmap towards peace, Afghanistan seems set to hold its 2014 presidential election in the middle of a war. Whether by design or default, the electoral process will be shaped by that conflict. However Afghanistan and many other countries already have ample experience of what happens when voters go to the polls in conditions of ongoing conflict. There is still time to put in place measures which can to some extent “bomb-proof” the election – i.e. ensure that the
United Nations Sanctions Committee dealing with the Taliban
The Security Council Committee established pursuant to paragraph 30 of resolution 1988 (2011) oversees the implementation by States of the three sanctions measures (assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo) imposed by the Security Council on individuals, groups, undertakings and entities associated with the Taliban in constituting a threat to the peace, stability and security of Afghanistan as designated by the Committee and included on the List accessible on this webpage.
International Crisis Group
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict.