{"id":1274,"date":"2019-03-31T09:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T09:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2019-03-31T09:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T09:09:52","slug":"caps-hosts-canadian-academics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"CAPS hosts Canadian Academics\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Feb 10, 2008<\/strong><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On December 13<sup>th<\/sup>, the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) hosted the Security and Defence forum, a group of Canadian academics at the Centre. The trip was sponsored by NATO as a part of the\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0familiarization visit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hekmat Karzai, the Director of the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) along with Dr. Najeeb\u00a0ur\u00a0Rahman Manalai (Associate Research Fellow) and Halim Kousary (Jebsen Fellow) participated in a discussion with the delegates. Mr. Haji Naseeb, the Head of Wadan\u00a0Afghanistan, a non-governmental organization, and Mr. Ali Wardak, a well-known Afghan academic and one of the authors of the Afghanistan Human Development Report, also participated in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Among the Canadian academics present were, Dr. Douglas Bland (Chair in Defense Management Studies,\u00a0Queens\u00a0University), Dr. Jim Fergusson (Director of Centre for Defense and Security Studies,\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0Manitoba), and Dr. David Mandeloff (Director of the\u00a0Carleton\u00a0University).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Karzai gave the visitors a briefing on the centre and its capacity building efforts in\u00a0Afghanistan. He mentioned the key projects that CAPS was engaged in and expounded on the phenomenon of suicide terrorism in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0by highlighting the key trends over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CAPS staff also discussed with the visitors the current situation in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0and the pressing security challenges in the country. The group discussed some of the mistakes made by the international community in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0that have led to disillusionment among the Afghans and have increased the gap between the government and the population.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Halim Kousary stressed on the need for the international community to be sensitive to the Afghan culture and the local customs and traditions. The group finally touched upon the issue of narcotics in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0and Dr. Najeeb Manalai gave them an overview of the issue and mentioned the complexities of addressing the problem. The meeting was followed by a traditional Afghan lunch at the centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 10, 2008 On December 13th, the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) hosted the Security and Defence forum, a group of Canadian academics at the Centre. The trip was sponsored by NATO as a part of the\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0familiarization visit. &nbsp; Mr. Hekmat Karzai, the Director of the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}