ÈÍÒÅËÐÎÑ > Vol. 4, No 4. 2014 > Confronting the Threat of Corruption and Organized Crime in Afghanistan: Implications for Future Armed Conflict

TIM SULLIVAN AND CARL FORSBERG
Confronting the Threat of Corruption and Organized Crime in Afghanistan: Implications for Future Armed Conflict


17 àïðåëÿ 2014

As the conflict in Afghanistan has evolved over the last decade, it has become apparent that of the many challenges the country and its international partners face, few are as complex, pervasive, and threatening as corruption and organized crime. Together, corruption and organized crime have undermined efforts to build Afghan institutions, consolidate security gains, achieve political progress, encourage economic growth, and set conditions for enduring stability. These problems, however, are not unique to the war in Afghanistan. Conflicts elsewhere in recent decades have revealed that states engaged in or emerging from insurgencies and civil wars—especially those in which institutions are weak, rule of law is minimal, and substantial international resources have been injected with inadequate oversight—are particularly susceptible to the proliferation of corruption and organized crime


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