Working toward peace and prosperity in Afghanistan / edited by Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Kabul's long shadows / Michael Barry—Regional cooperation / Bruce Koepke—Afghanistan and Iran / Wolfgang Danspeckgruber—Afghanistan and state building / Daoud Yaqub—The security environment in Afghanistan / Barbara J. Stapleton—Making sense of more soldiers : the imperative for a new political-constitutional settlement / James Gow—Governance / William Maley—The corruption problem / William A. Byrd—The rule of law / Thomas Barfield—Women and the justice system / Belquis Ahmadi—Dispute-resolution mechanisms / Wazhma Frogh—Civil society / Arezoo Qanih—Ghazni : the 2013 Islamic cultural capital for Asia / Michael Jansen—The development agenda / Mohammed Ehsan Zia—Effective development requires better aid / Nipa Banerjee—Sky-high development : a compendium of donor (in)coordination / Rachel Steinberg—Media reform / Robert Finn—Afghan media, civil society, and international support / Shirazuddin Siddiqi—Managing talks with the Taliban / Francesc Vendrell—Will Afghan women be the Taliban's spoils of war? / Ursula Plassnik—For a fistful of dollars : the selling out of reconciliation and reintegration / Susanne Schmeidl and Nick Miszak—How tribal are the Taliban? Afghanistan's largest insurgent movement between tribal roots and Islamist ideology / Thomas Ruttig—Warlord as governor in Afghanistan / Dipali Mukhopadhyay—A political settlement in Afghanistan : preparing for the long game, not the endgame / Minna Järvenpää—Epilogue : Afghanistan, Quo vadis? / Wolfgang Danspeckgruber.