{"id":1427,"date":"2019-04-02T04:48:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T04:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2019-04-02T04:48:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T04:48:25","slug":"u-s-delegation-visits-to-centre-for-conflict-and-peace-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1427","title":{"rendered":"U.S. delegation visits to Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aug 25, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"previewImg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27308%27%20height%3D%27244%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20308%20244%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27308%27%20height%3D%27244%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/caps.af\/pics\/New%20Pic%201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"244\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nCentre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) hosted a delegation from U.S on August 19, 2011. The delegation included William (Bill) Goodfellow, Executive Director of Center for International Policy; Michael Snarr, PhD Professor of Social and Political Studies at Wilmington College; Ken Takeda, Senior Legislative Assistant to Representative Michael Honda- California\u2019s 15th Congressional District and an area that includes Silicon Valley; Rachel Lipsey, Research Director for U.S. Congressman Paul Tonko of New York; Matt Southworth, Legislative Associate on foreign policy at Friends Committee on National Legislation and Shukria (Ria) Dellawar, Cultural Advisor\/Media Analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Director of CAPS, Mr. Hekmat Karzai, welcomed the delegation and thanked it for its visit to Afghanistan and CAPS. Mr. Kousary, Deputy Head of Research, briefed the delegation on CAPS\u2019 practice areas and projects followed by an open discussion where Mr. Hekmat Karzai provided his insights vis-a-vis the ongoing Afghan reconciliation and reintegration process, transition process, and the need for economic development in Afghanistan. He stated that the international community should prioritise making economic investment in Afghanistan over proving aid to it as it is a major long term solution to Afghanistan\u2019s economic and strategic problems. Mr. Karzai added that while transition process in Afghanistan is underway, NATO and U.S. must work hard to enhance Afghan governance and strengthen Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The discussion also focused on Afghanistan-U.S. strategic partnership, which was analysed to the delegation from an Afghan perspective. In conclusion, the delegation offered CAPS\u2019 expertise and findings to be utilized in the delegation\u2019s future work on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 25, 2011 Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) hosted a delegation from U.S on August 19, 2011. The delegation included William (Bill) Goodfellow, Executive Director of Center for International Policy; Michael Snarr, PhD Professor of Social and Political Studies at Wilmington College; Ken Takeda, Senior Legislative Assistant to Representative Michael Honda- California\u2019s 15th [&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-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","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=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}