Prospects for stability in Afghanistan
| Date | Tuesday , December 15, 2009 |
| Location | Stimson Center |
with
Prakhar Sharma
Visiting fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center
Tuesday 15 December, 10:00-11:30am
The future of Afghanistan depends on the security situation and the legitimacy of the Afghan government. These in turn are substantially affected by criminality, poor rule of law, weak institutions, and the incapability of the state to deliver essential services such as education and health. Prakhar Sharma will discuss how insurgency, criminality and government legitimacy affect and are affected by these. Afghanistan also has a highly resilient society. Sharma will explore how this compensates for a weak state and affects perceptions of governance.
Prakhar Sharma is currently a visiting fellow at the Henry L. Stimson Center. He specializes in conflict and post-conflict research in Afghanistan. He has nearly two years of in-country field experience in Afghanistan, researching and leading projects in local think-tanks in fields of governance, reconstruction, security, livelihoods and media. He has degrees in commerce, business administration and public policy from the University of Rajasthan, the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, and the National University of Singapore. He was a senior analyst on focusing on conflict and terrorism in Afghanistan at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and was a consultant to the Department of Education of the Philippines on decentralization.
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