Afghan War Blog

Video - RoL and BG Mitch Chitwood. The leader of Essential Function 3 at NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan is assisting...

Climate Change in Afghanistan.  This past week the leaders of the world converged in Paris to attend the climate conference. President...

The September 2015 CSTC-A Dividend$ newsletter is out. A one-page PDF providing information on three topics. The Afghan Airfield Econo...

Rule of Law advisors and military lawyers working in Afghanistan may be interested in a recent publication released by the Office of Gene...

One of the hardest jobs in Afghanistan is that of a Rule of Law advisor . I have known and worked with several RoL advisors and trainers a...

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has published a report entitled Islamic Law, Customary Law and Afghan Informal Justice  - dated ...

In developing countries people have a stereotypical view about judicial systems being slow, rigid, and secretive. In Afghanistan these thr...

Dr.Vivienne O'Connor of the International Network to Promote the Rule of Law (INPROL) has penned a practitioner's guide entitled ...

EUPOL has posted an explanation of their Line of Operation 3 (LO3) for training up the Afghan National Police. LO3 is the Rule of Law Compo...

The establishment of Rule of Law (RoL) in Afghanistan is not progressing as quickly as it needs to. There are a lot of factors holding RoL ...

The international community continues to pour money into Afghanistan in an effort to improve the police, judiciary and rule-of-law . However...

There are three justice systems at work in Afghanistan. One is the Afghan government's judicial system which is under-funded, under-res...

The Legal Advisors for ISAF met with their Afghan counterparts at a conference in Kabul. Read more in this ISAF News release (October 30, ...

An important new resource is now available for those who are conducting the Security Force Assistance (SFA) mission in Afghanistan. The R...

A leading women's rights advocate in Afghanistan provides us with information on the great progress made in women's rights and the...

Combined Joint Interagency Task Force (CJIATF) 435 has deactivated. The deactivation ceremony was held on September 29,2014 at Bagram Air Fi...

The International Security Assistance Command (ISAF) recently conducted Rule of Law (RoL) training for Afghan women working as prosecutors...

Thomas L. English, a retired Army officer, has wrote a paper posted on Small Wars Journal  entitled "The Rule of Law in the Context of ...

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has published a report entitled Support for Afghanistan's Justice...

The post 9/11 transitional justice progresses and failures at the policy and practical levels in Afghanistan are analyzed in a paper entit...