Who we Are 2
Building on our 20 years of field experience
we are a group of highly motivated, compassionate, and concerned professionals who are heavily vested in advancing the cause of global peace and security. We have an objective and recent experience of the situation in Afghanistan and aim to offer crucial insight and solutions to the everlasting conflict in Afghanistan. Our diverse team comprises foreign policy experts, senior policy analysts, advisors, former ambassadors, and project management specialists familiar with security challenges, geopolitical dynamics, and cultures unique to Afghanistan and the region. The team is also diverse in terms of expertise, gender, ethnicity, language, and regional backgrounds, and combines perspectives from the old and new Afghan diaspora.
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Our staff has years of in-country experience and can easily navigate dealing with governments, local and national laws, as well as the international community. The team at Afghanistan House intends to empower the Afghan diaspora and professionals to reflect upon lessons from the War on Terror in Afghanistan. We connect professionals with an aim to promote peace through critical policy dialogues, peace education, conflict resolution, and credible and analytical reporting. Afghanistan House has recently produced analyses, articles, and policy briefs on the dynamics of the Afghan conflict.
Some of the analyses and articles produced by Afghanistan House include “When does conflict termination lead to conflict resolution?”, “The role of historical grievances in the rise of Islamic radicalism”, “China’s Taliban Dilemma”, “The perplexing future of former Afghan Armed Forces”, and “A photo essay on the historic liberties of the Afghan women.”Over the last two decades, the leadership of Afghanistan House have worked extensively with international partners and the Afghan government, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Office of the National Security Council, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Education, the Independent Directorate for Local Governance (IDLG), the Afghan National Army (ANA), and the Afghan National Police (ANP), Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD), USAID etc. and currently with different groups of the Afghan diaspora, former politicians, women activists and civil society groups. This experience and the Afghanistan House’s extensive connections with Afghans across the board, as well as the regional countries, will place the Afghanistan House as an influential institution to draft policy briefs and option papers on various aspects of peace and security in Afghanistan and the region.
What we do
Afghanistan House convenes policy-focused debate and policy-oriented research on Afghanistan’s politics, economy, development, and humanitarian needs. , We seek to bring stability and study tactical and strategic opportunities to tackle these crises using the indigenous perspective and experience of Afghan and non-Afghan professionals. With an ultimate objective to make the world a safer place, Afghanistan House reflects the unheard views of the Afghan people to achieve peace and sustainable development.
Afghanistan House curates diverse and inclusive platforms and develops networks for cooperation between the concerned citizens and relevant institutions. A cross-cutting priority of Afghanistan House is to conduct programmatic initiatives and act as a stepping stone for the Afghan professionals evacuated to the United States. Afghanistan House utilizes the experience and expertise of the Afghan diaspora and, as an added value, simultaneously facilitates their transition into the American context by serving as a platform for experience sharing, cultural exchange, and coaching economic development.Afghanistan House earnestly believes that a troubled or failed military intervention does not mean disengagement is the only option. The objective of that intervention, which was conducted right after the heinous attacks of 9/11, was the Global War on Terror. It’s not an objective we can give up because we once failed in achieving it. It’s a reality that will come back to us if we turn our back on it. We should continue investing in that objective regardless of the outcome of our previous interventions. The nature of this investment will vary over time. Afghanistan House is determined to offer alternative solutions that can help us achieve that objective.
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