Event

NUPI has the great pleasure of inviting you to the seminar:

While war and terror attacks continue in central and southern Afghanistan, the race for securing a place in Afghanistan's "post"-war political and economic settlement is reaching a high point. This informal seminar looks at political and economic developments in Afghanistan and seeks to indentify key trends and actors. The two presenters have recently returned from extensive field work in Afghanistan and will share their preliminary findings and insights.

• Dipali Mukhopadhyay: "Warlords as governors - opportunities and pitfalls"

• Stina Torjesen: "Warlords and networks: towards domination of the post war economy?"

• Discussant: Kristian Berg Harpviken

• Debate

Dipali Mukhopadhyay
is a doctoral candidate at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is currently a Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation and will be joining the US Institute of Peace in the fall as a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar. Dipali has just returned from spending the summer in the cities of Mazar-i-Sharif and Jalalabad conducting field research for her dissertation on Governors Atta Mohammed Noor and Gul Agha Sherzai. She has been travelling to Afghanistan for work and research since 2004.

Stina Torjesen
is a Senior Research Fellow at NUPI. She wrote her Phd thesis on Central Asian affairs and is presently doing a three year post doc project on Afghanistan. She conducted fieldwork in Mazar-i-Sharif and the Afghan-Uzbek border areas this spring.

Kristian Berg Harpviken
is Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow at Prio. Is currently enganged in a doctoral project in sociology based on fieldwork in the Herat area of Northwestern Afghanistan, following people from their initial flight decision through exile to their eventual (re)integration at the place of origin.