Kabul Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) with the financial support of the European Union indicates that ongoing debates on the peace and reconciliation process have largely ignored the production of illegal drugs and its significant impacts on a possible political settlement.
Drawing on the author’s long term research in Afghanistan, the paper analyses the role that illicit drugs and the monies they generate play in the conflict.
“The risks that illegal drug crop production - opium, opiates, marijuana and . . .
