Toward Reconciliation in Afghanistan

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Such trips can be very informative. They allow concentrated study, access to a wide range of officials, and the opportunity to speak candidly with many people, some of whom are known to the visitors, facilitating frank discussions. This approach provides a combination of hard data, qualitative information, unvarnished opinions of what is happening on the ground and opportunity for visitors to probe and question. 2. Jason H. Campbell and Jeremy Shapiro, Afghanistan Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan (Washington D.C.: Brookings, December 16, 2008), http://www.brookings.edu/foreign-policy/~/media/Files/Programs/FP/afghanistan%20index/index.pdf. 3. Brookings Institution, “Afghanistan Index,” http://www.brookings.edu/foreign-policy/afghanistan-index.aspx. 4. Gun Control, “International Homicide Comparisons,” http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html. 5. Philip Gordon et al., “Memo to the President: Expand the Agenda in Pakistan and Afghanistan” (panel discussion, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., December 18, 2008), http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/events/2008/1218_transition/20081218_afghanistan_pakistan.pdf. Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichael O'HanlonMichael O'Hanlon is a senior fellow, senior author of the Iraq Index, research director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, and a visiting lecturer at Princeton