This project consists of two meetings:

Afghanistan: The Role of the International Community in the Reform of the Police, the Judicial System, and the Local Administrative Sector

Madrid, Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales (CEPC), 7 February 2007

This technical seminar analysed the possibility of the different international players providing coordinated and more effective action with regard to reforms in the security sector, the judicial system and government in Afghanistan. Participants included representatives of the main players in the area (UN, NATO, EU), as well as the Afghan government and the academic field, and they exchanged ideas on the capacity of international resources used in the area. They also drew up practical recommendations aimed at achieving more effective and coordinated action. On the one hand, this exercise aimed to analyse the situation and provide generic recommendations for how to overcome existing problems and on the other hand, to encourage the international community, particularly the EU through action programmes, to make a firm commitment including the rolling out of new civil international crisis management resources in order to consolidate peace in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and the Impact of NATO’s Adjustment to New Challenges

Seville, Fundación Tres Culturas, 8 February 2007  

The meeting was devised as an exercise to stimulate discussion between civil society and the university community on the role of NATO and the international community in Afghanistan, as well as to offer students the opportunity to put their questions to those people responsible for the design and application of Atlantic Alliance policies. The conclusions reached during the technical seminar in Madrid were expressed and discussed the following day by university students in Seville within the framework of a high level forum. Students had the opportunity to put their questions to NATO’s Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer and the Defence Minister, José Antonio Alonso, during lunch held at the headquarters of the Tres Culturas Foundation and subsequently to a panel of experts.

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