Half title
The Afghanistan Conflict and
Australias Role
MUP ISLAMIC STUDIES SERIES
The Islamic Studies Series (ISS) is aimed at producing internationally competitive research manuscripts. This series will showcase the breadth of scholarship on Islam and Muslim affairs, making it available to a wide readership. Books in the ISS are based on original research and represent a number of disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology and political science. Books in the ISS are refereed publications that are committed to research excellence. Submissions on contemporary issues are strongly encouraged. Proposals should be sent to the ISS Editor.
Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh
ISS Editor (shahrama@unimelb.edu.au)
Board of Advisors
Associate Professor Syed Farid Alatas
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
Professor Howard V. Brasted
School of Humanities, University of New England
Professor Robert E. Elson
School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland
Professor John Esposito
Director, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, University Professor of Religion and International Affairs, Georgetown University
Emeritus Professor Riaz Hassan AM, FASSA
ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, Department of Sociology, Flinders University
Professor Robert Hefner
Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, Boston University
Professor Michael Humphrey
Chair, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney
Professor William Maley AM
Director, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University
Professor James Piscatori
Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia), Australian National University
Professor Abdullah Saeed
Sultan of Oman Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, Director, National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne
Professor Amin Saikal AM
Director, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia), Australian National University
Professor Samina Yasmeen
Director, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
Title page
The Afghanistan Conflict and
Australias Role
Edited by Amin Saikal
Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies (CAIS)
(The Middle East and Central Asia)
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Contents
The New City of Kabul: Sustainable Peace and Growth
Through Greater Kabul
Curiously Incurious: The Australian Media, the Australian
Military and Afghanistan
Public Opinion, Public Affairs and the ADFs war
in Afghanistan
Notes on Contributors
Beth Eggleston is currently the Humanitarian Advocacy Coordinator with Oxfam Australia, after returning from three years working in Afghanistan, most recently with the UN mission focusing on civilmilitary coordination and humanitarian assistance issues.
Mark Evans is a Lieutenant General and Australian Defence Force Chief of Joint Operations. He previously served as Commander of Joint Task Force 633, where he was responsible for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kevin Foster is Associate Professor and Head of Communications and Media Studies in the School of English Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University. His recent publications include Lost Worlds: Latin America and the Imagining of Empire (London: Pluto, 2009) and (ed.) What are we doing in Afghanistan? The Military and the Media at War (Melbourne: ASP, 2009).
Virginia Haussegger is an award-winning journalist and presenter of Canberra ABC TV News. In 2010 she joined the national board of UN Women , and received an honorary appointment as Adjunct Professor in the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra.
Tom Hyland is the International Editor at The Sunday Age, where he edits foreign coverage and writes on diplomatic, defence and security issues. He has been writing on Afghanistan for the past four years.
Michael J. Kelly MP is the Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and was previously the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Support in the Rudd Labor Government.
William Maley is Professor of Political Science and Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University. His major works include Rescuing Afghanistan (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006) and The Afghanistan Wars, 2nd ed (New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Amin Saikal is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (The Middle East and Central Asia) at the Australian National University. His latest books include Modern Afghanistan: A History of Struggle and Survival (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006) and The Rise and Fall of the Shah: Iran from Autocracy to Religious Rule , 2nd ed (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009).
Mahmoud Saikal is a Senior Advisor and the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dehsabz City Development Authority, overseeing Afghanistans biggest current development project. He served as Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan from 20052006.
Nazif Shahrani is Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) at Indiana University, Bloomington. One of his major publications is The Kirghiz and Wakhi of Afghanistan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).
Hugh White is Professor of Strategic Studies and Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.
List of Abbreviations
ACBAR Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief
ADF Australian Defence Force
AFP Australian Federal Police
AIHRC Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
ANA Afghan National Army
ANDMA Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority
ANDS Afghanistan National Development Strategy
ANSF Afghan National Security Forces
APRP Afghan Peace and Reintegration Programme
AQ Al-Qaeda
AusAID Australian Agency for International Development
AWN Afghan Womens Network
CDC Community Development Council
COIN Counter-insurgency
COMISAF ISAF Commander
DCDA Dehsabz City Development Authority
DFAT Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade (Australia)
ECC Electoral Complaints Commission (Afghanistan)
IDP Internally displaced person
IEC Independent Election Commission (Afghanistan)
IED Improvised explosive device
ISAF International Security Assistance Force
ISI Intra-Services Intelligence Agency (Pakistan)
JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency
KMA Kabul Metropolitan Area
KMD Kabul Metropolitan Development
