Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Area

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Photos by Lorenzo Tugnoli.

We see families working in the fields to make a living, often by planting seeds of poppy and marijuana.
Those crops are the base of the regional drug trade and an economic driver of what is now the longest war in U.S. history.

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Environments The Experience of War: Afghanistan Actors, Impact on Civilians, Environments Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts Katerina Tkacova, University of Oxford The interdisciplinary project aims to create a knowledge-based platform for academics, practitioners, policy-makers and the wider public to understand the changing character of conflicts across different epistemologies and methodologies. While we might not be able to stop some conflicts, we may well be able to prevent a drastic increase in casualties or erosion of social fabric if we understand the main patterns of organized violence. In our work, we focus… Methods, Resources Conflicts in Flux: A Novel Approach to Analysing Conflict Dynamics ​This article presents a novel approach to studying armed conflict based on a new geographical unit of analysis, ‘setting of organized violence’ (SORVI). Some of the world’s most devastating armed conflicts—ranging from the Afghan civil war to the Syrian conflict—comprise several entangled conflicts and changing contested issues that spill across borders. They also feature new spin-off conflicts. Current macro-level studies of conflict research, especially those with quantitative… Actors, Impact on Civilians Ashwaq Masoodi: Changing Contours of the Kashmir Conflict Ashwaq Masoodi ashwaqmasoodi@gmail.com, Fellow at Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism The blog article explains the evolving nature of the Kashmir conflict and the often overlooked role, agency and demands of the local Kashmiris in it. Kashmir is often portrayed as a conflict between Pakistan and India while Kashmir’s effort to gain independence is overlooked and so is the role and needs of the Kashmiris. The piece looks at the different type of actors involved in the… Actors, Methods The Importance of Geography Lorenzo Tugnoli’s photoessay is divided into two parts. He opens with a stunning series of black and white images of village of Lagubu, which sits on the Afghanistan side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. That section of the two-part photo-essay opens up windows into daily life in this border region, views that illuminate the ways in which social structure is a central, but often hidden, dimension of the conflict. For example, we see families working in the fields to make a living, often by… Actors, Impact on Civilians, Environments, Methods, Resources Conflict in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Area The existence and activities of the Taleban Movement of Pakistan (TTP) are closely connected to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, after which high-ranking members of the Taleban and al Qaeda fled to FATA. We consider the conflict between the Taleban and the US-led coalition connected to the insurgency led by TTP in FATA for two main reasons. First, the presence of the Taleban and al Qaeda in FATA resulted in US drone strikes beyond the Afghan border (Aslam, 2011). Second, the presence…