Arbeitsgemeinschaft Afghanistan

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Symposia / Workshops:

Afghanistan Today: Recent and on-going research on Afghanistan,

Naturwissenschaften / Sciences:

S. -W. Breckle: Ecological Climate Diagram Map of Afghanistan .Presents detailed climatic digrammes of ca. 70 districts in Afghanistan from where sufficient data were available. (2007, Power Point Presentation, 5,7 MB. It is recommended to download it first and then to open it off-line).
S. -W. Breckle: Flora and Vegetation of Afghanistan. (2006, pdf, 64 KB)
H. Freitag & S. Breckle: Karte: Natürliche Vegetation (jpg, 280 KB)

Gesellschaft und Politik / Society and Politics

C. Schetter und R. Glassner: The Changing Face of Warlordism in Afghanistan.In: H.-G. Ehrhart and C.C. Pentland (eds): The Afghanistan Challenge. 2009 (pp 37-56)
C. Schetter und R. Glassner: Neither Functioning, nor failing of the State: Seeing Violence in Afghanistan from Local Perspectives.
In: S. Collmer (ed.): From Fragile State to Functioning State: Pathways to Democratic Transformation in Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, and Afghanistan. Berlin, 2009 (pp 137-156)
T. Debiel, R. Glassner, C. Schetter, U. Terlinden: Local State-Building in Afghanistan and Somaliland. Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, 21, 2009:38-44
Katja Mielke und Conrad Schetter: Wiederholt sich Geschichte? Die legitimatorischen Deutungsmuster der Interventionen in Afghanistan 1979 und 2001.Peripherie Nr. 116, 29. Jg. 2009: 448-468
Reinhard Schlagintweit: Scheitert Afghanistan erneut?: (Fazit eines der besten Landeskenner Afghanistan aus jahrzehntelanger persönlicher Erfahrung. 2009, 10 S.)
Andreas Wilde: Structural Patterns of Iran's Policy in Afghanistan, Internationales Asienforum, Vol. 40 (2009), No. 1-2, pp. 11-38.
Thomas Ruttig: Islamists, Leftists - and a Void in the Center: Afghanistan's Political Parties and where they come from (1902-2006). (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung) Kabul 2006 (52 S; pdf 1,6 MB, externer Link)
A, Wimmer u. C. Schetter: State Formation First: Recommendantions for Reconstruction and Peace Making in Afghanistan.Bonn. ZEF Discussion Papers 2002. (zip, pdf 227 KB)
B. Glatzer: The Pashtun Tribal System Artikel 2002 (pdf 103 KB)
Conrad Schetter: Die Schimäre einer ethnischen Lösung. Neue Zürcher, 26. 10. 2001
B. Glatzer: War and Boundaries in Afghanistan: Significance and Relativity of Local and Social Boundaries. Artikel (pdf, 125 KB)
B. Glatzer: Zum Pashtunwali als ethnischem Selbstportrait. In: Günter Best und Reinhart Kößler (Hg): Subjekte und Systeme: Soziologische undanthropologische Annäherungen. Festschrift für Christian Sigrist zum 65. Geburtstag. Frankfurt:IKO-Verlag, 2000: 93-102. (pdf, 57 KB)

Afghanen im Exil / Afghans in Exile

M. Braakman:Roots and Routes: Questions of Home, Belonging and Return in an Afghan Diaspora MA-Thesis 2005 (pdf, 2,6 MB)

Kunst und Geschichte / Art and History

Max Klimburg: Und der Sonnengott flog davon Nachruf auf die zerstörten Bamyan-Buddhas.
Volker Thewalt: Bilder aus dem Kabul Museum