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Documents about Governance in Afghanistan

Constitution of Afghanistan (1883).  English version on Afghan Ministry of Justice website.

The Afghanistan Compact.  Developed at the London Conference in January 2006 provides a political framework between Afghanistan and the international community.  (PDF on NATO ISAF website).

Government of Afghanistan Documents.  A collection of documents relating to GoA by the International Peace Research Institute.

Publications on Governance in Afghanistan
(listed in chronological order by date)

Stefanie Nijssen.  Towards Sustainable Governance: Funding & Capacity, Afghanistan Resource Desk, Civil-Military Fusioin Centre, February 2012.  Accessed here on reliefweb.int March 24, 2012 (PDF).

Kenneth Katzman, Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy, Congressional Research Service, November 22, 2011.  Accessed here Feb 2012.

Jameson Boex, Grace Buencamino, and Deborah Kimble, An Assessment of Afghanistan's Municipal Governance Framework, Urban Institute, November 18, 2011.  Accessed here Feb 2012.

Scott Worden and Sylvana Q. Sinha, Constitutional Interpretation and the Continuing Crisis in Afghanistan, United States Institute of Peace, November 7, 2011.  Accessed here Feb 2012.

"Local Governance in Afghanistan: A View from the Ground".  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), Dr. Douglas Saltmarshe and Abhilash Medhi, June 2011. (PDF)

"Undermining representative governance: Afghanistan's 2010 Parliamentary Election and Its Alienating Impact", Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), February 22, 2011.

"Local Governance in Rural Afghanistan".  Human Terrain System (HTS) Report, publicintelligence.net, October 26, 2010.

"Governance in Afghanistan: Looking Ahead to What We Leave Behind".  Center for American Progress, Colin Cookman and Caroline Wadhams, May 2010.  (PDF)

"Civil-Military Integration in Afghanistan".  Joshua W. Welle, Joint Forces Quarterly, Spring 2010.

"Governance in Afghanistan in Regional Perspective".  Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), January 21, 2010.

"Municipal Governance in Afghanistan".  Volume II, International City/County Management Association (ICMA), 2010.

"Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy"  Kenneth Katzman, Congressional Research Service, July 20, 2009.  (PDF)

"Support to Provincial Governance (SPG)", International Organization for Migration (IOM), September 2008.  (PDF)

"Rethinking Governance in Afghanistan", Nigel J.R. Allan, Journal of International Affairs, Spring 2005.  (PDF)

"A Guide to Government in Afghanistan".  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), March 2004.

"A New Afghanistan: Challenges of Governance and the Rule of Law".  United States Institute of Peace, January 2004.