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Emmanuel Reinert on France 24 talks about the French casualties caused by the rising insurgency in Afghanistan. (20 August 2008)

Jorrit Kamminga on the Islam Channel about the significance of France's worst loss of troops in Afghanistan to date. He explains why The Senlis Council is calling for a substantial troop surge - to boost not only morale, but our slimming chances of victory in a war we cannot afford to lose. (20 August 2008)

Norine MacDonald QC talks to CNN about the War on Terror, Iraq and Afghanistan (3 July 2008)

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Articles

It's time Somaliland was declared independent The Guardian - (8 Oct.)

Matrix of Death Frontline - (8 Oct.)

Gates Favours Talks With "Reconcilable" Insurgents Bloomberg - (7 Oct.)

All Change in the US's Afghan mission Asia Times Online - (22 Sept.)

The Parties, the Promises, the Policies Embassy - (17 Sept.)

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Letter to the Editor

The Taliban are taking over

31 August 2008

No one wants to face reality and admit the Taliban are winning (Taliban win over locals at the gates of Kabul, World, last week). The international community has failed the Afghans.
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A better solution for the opium problem - The Times

Poppy eradication has failed - Montreal Gazette

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Senlis Film

Video Report: Internally Displaced People
Norine MacDonald QC talks to a woman from Sangin province about the trouble she faces since her husband and other family members were killed in a NATO bombing.

Photo Reports

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Press Releases

Winning over Angry Young Men is key to enduring stability in Iraq

26 JUNE 2008
LONDON – In a new report titled ‘Iraq: Angry Hearts and Angry Minds’, The Senlis Council on Thursday called for a reengineering of the international community’s mechanisms for responding to global security crises. The Senlis Council, a security and development policy group with research platforms in the three main War on Terror conflict theatres – Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia – has been undertaking a series of interviews looking at the root causes of the conflicts. The Council’s new research in Iraq demonstrates that current policies in the country are producing a generation of angry young men who are easy prey for recruitment to extremist insurgencies.
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Paris conference: Donors must use market forces to tackle Afghan opium crisis (12 June 2008)

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Press Conferences

"Door Number Three" required in Iraq - current "stay or go" debate needs to be discarded

LONDON, 26 JUNE 2008

The Senlis Council organised a press conference in London to release its latest report, Iraq - Angry Hearts and Angry Minds. “The question being put about Iraq is ‘does the military stay or does the military go?’ But this is the wrong way to frame the question,” said Paul Burton, the Director of Policy Analysis for The Senlis Council. “To reduce the debate to this simple binary choice is the wrong lens through which to frame the approach to long-term stability and prosperity in Iraq.” According to the report, Western strategy in Iraq has suffered from poverty of innovation. “We need more than these two choices as neither one of them will take us where we need to go. We need to find ‘Door Number Three,” he added.
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From Afghanistan to Somalia (6 Feb. 2007)

Afghanistan: Decision Point (6 Feb. 2008)

De Facto Taliban / Al Qaeda State forming on Pakistan-Afghanistan Border (5 Dec. 2007)

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Op-Ed

A Losing War - by Romesh Bhattacharji, former counter-narcotics commissioner of India

7 August2008

Nature achieved this year what six years of United States-led anti-narcotics enforcement could not do in Afghanistan. Bad weather effected a decline in the country’s opium production by ruining a sizable chunk of the crop. For Afghanistan, narcotics and insurgency are intertwined and inseparable problems. Illicit cultivation of opium was used by the U.S. to finance the insurrection against the Najibullah government...
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Mr. Harper: Don't let Insite close - The Scotsman

EU leadership on narcotics strategy in Afghanistan - New Europe

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The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank with offices in Kabul, London, Ottawa, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels and Paris. The Council’s work encompasses foreign policy, security, development and counter-narcotics policies and aims to provide innovative analysis and proposals within these areas. The extensive programme currently underway in Afghanistan focuses on global policy development in conjunction with field research to investigate the relationships between counter-narcotics, military, and development policies and their consequences on Afghanistan’s reconstruction efforts. Senlis Afghanistan has field offices in the Afghan cities of Kabul, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar
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The Comité des Sages, a selection of European leaders, was established by the Network of European Foundations in order to help review the current state of international security and development policy. They released a review called the Arrabida Conclusions during a press briefing in March 2003.
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