This report is intended as a wake-up call for action. It does not examine individual nations or institutions in depth and recognises that many of the constraints are the result of national systems - for instance, how aid is dispersed

This briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the slow progress one year after the Afghan government and the international community committed to a "shared vision of the future" for a "stable and prosperous Afghanistan". At the London Conference of

This International Crisis Group report, examines the worsening violence in a key country, whose police were overlooked in early stages of the international intervention in favour of building the army. Today they too often are a source of fear, rather

Afghanistan is not lost but the signs are not good. Its growing insurgency reflects a collective failure to tackle the root causes of violence. Six years after the Taliban's ouster, the international community lacks a common diagnosis of what is