The tenth edition of AREU’s flagship publication: a guide to the terms, structures, mechanisms, and coordinating bodies critical to the Afghanistan relief effort, plus an extensive contacts directory. This edition also features profiles of all provinces and a new media contacts section.

A report by Antonio Giustozzi traces the structural factors driving anti-government mobilisation in Afghanistan through three decades of ideological war, factionalism and insurgency.

A new synthesis report explores the dynamics of women's participation as candidates and voters in Afghanistan's 2005 and 2009/10 parliamentary and provincial council elections in Balkh, Bamiyan and Kabul provinces.

A peaceful country was desired by all and a negotiated end to the violence was widely seen as necessary but not easy to achieve. But for a just and durable settlement, it was also widely perceived that the legacies of past and present conflict will need to be addressed.