Afghanistan

Strategies for ending the war, enhancing security, and ensuring women’s rights in Afghanistan.

Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan, 2^nd Ed.,  with Kristen Wall, a report from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, in cooperation with Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Cordaid, Women’s Actions for New Directions, and the Fourth Freedom Forum (August 2012).

“Economic development in Afghanistan impossible without peace,” Common Ground News Service (24 July 2012).

“Secretary Panetta, Afghanistan needs a peace settlement not more war,” Christian Science Monitor (7 June 2012).

“Preserving the gains of Afghan women as troops withdraw,” Common Ground News Service (27 March 2012).

“Securing future rights for women in Afghanistan,” Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, (22 March 2012).

“No time to Abandon Afghan Women,” Huffington Post (8 March 2012).

“Exit Strategy: The plight of Afghan women,” Commonweal (12 August 2011).

Ending Obama’s War: Responsible Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2011).

David Cortright: Killing Bin Laden, video interview at Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, 3 May 2011.

“Support women’s rights without war,” CNN Afghanistan Crossroads blog (3 May 2011).

“Finding the Way Out: Why it’s time to end the war in Afghanistan, and how to do it,” Sojourners 40, no. 3, March 2011.

“Afghan Women Speak: Enhancing Security and Human Rights in Afghanistan,” with Sarah Smiles Persinger, a report from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, in cooperation with Cordaid and the Fourth Freedom Forum (October 2010).

“Reversing a Deadly Dynamic in Afghanistan,” Peace Policy, online, 29 November 2010.

“Alternatives to War in Afghanistan,” National Catholic Reporter, online, 13  October 2009.

“Is Afghanistan a ‘Good War’?,” Peace Policy, online, 1 October 2009.

“Opposing Escalation in Afghanistan,” The Nation, August 27, 2009.

“Winning in Afghanistan: How to splinter the Taliban and support Afghans,” Sojourners 38, no. 3 (March 2009): 9.