23
August 2018
Past Event
Afghanistan: 17 Years On

Afghanistan: 17 Years On

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
August 23, 2018
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and head of the Afghan Peace Council Karim Khalili after the second Kabul Process conference, February 28, 2018
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, and head of the Afghan Peace Council Karim Khalili after the second Kabul Process conference, February 28, 2018
23
August 2018
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Ambassador Omar Samad

CEO, Silkroad Consulting, LLC

David Sedney

Former Acting President, American University of Afghanistan, and Senior Associate, International Security Program, CSIS

Ambassador Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow and Director, South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute

For four decades Afghanistan and its citizens have lived through civil war, instability, and an unending terrorist insurgency. Last year, President Trump announced his Afghanistan and South Asia strategy to help address many of the chronic issues plaguing the region. Yet the Taliban and their allies continue to conduct attacks, often from safe havens across the border in Pakistan.

Some experts have suggested that the way out of this destructive cycle is through peace talks and negotiations with the Taliban. Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has repeatedly demonstrated his openness to such discussions, and has coordinated a number of them with American, Afghan, and Taliban officials in recent years. Others question the wisdom of peace talks involving the Taliban and the viability of any resolution that might require the withdrawal of foreign—especially American—troops from a still unstable Afghanistan.

On August 23, Hudson Institute’s South and Central Asia Program hosted a panel to discuss the current political climate in Afghanistan. Panelists included: Omar Samad, former Ambassador of Afghanistan to France and Canada; David Sedney, former president of American University of Afghanistan and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and international Studies; and Husain Haqqani, former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States and director of the South and Central Asia Program at Hudson Institute.

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