Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.
The book draws together expert contributions from countries across three continents Asia, Europe and North America which have provided external aid to Afghanistan. Using international, regional and local approaches, it highlights the importance of rebuilding sustainable communities in the midst of ongoing uncertainties. It explores the efficacy of external aid; challenges faced; the response of multilateral international agencies; the role of women in the reconstruction process; and community-based natural disaster risk management strategies. Finally, it looks at the lessons learned in the conflict reconstruction process to better prepare the country for future potential human, economic, infrastructural and institutional vulnerabilities.
Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.
Preface. Part I: Background Introduction Adenrele Awotona
1. Housing and
Disaster Risk Management in Uncertain Times Adenrele Awotona
2. The Afghan
Economy- A Historical Overview Peter Marsden
3. Locality and Power Sayed Asef
Hossaini Part II: The Role of Women in the Reconstruction Process
Introduction Adenrele Awotona
4. Women and Economic Development in Post
Conflict Afghanistan Nicole B. Dhanraj, Hilary Johnson-Lutz and Thomas Rzemyk
5. International Development and Gender in Afghanistan Kristen Cordell
6.
Women, Peace and Security Jorrit Kamminga
7. Reconstruction and Gender
Shukria Dellawar and Christina Tsirkas Part 3: International Donor Community
Responses Introduction Adenrele Awotona
8. Afghanistan and the Politics of
Quagmire David N. Gibbs
9. China in Afghanistan Niklas L.P. Swanström and
Julian Tucker
10. India's support for Afghanistans reconstruction Gareth
Price
11. Afghanistan Imbroglio K. N. Tennyson
12. Evaluating World Bank
Support to Building Capacity of the State and its Accountability to Citizens
in Afghanistan Clay G. Wescott Concluding Remarks: The Way Forward for
Afghanistan Adenrele Awotona Bibliography. Index
Adenrele Awotona, Professor of Sustainable Urban Development in the School for the Environment, is the Founder and Director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was previously a Director of Studies for the British Council International Seminars ("Reconstruction after disasters") in the UK. He has also organized major international conferences (on Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Japan, etc.) and hosted a workshop for the U.S. Department of State (with participants from Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay). A stream of publications has emanated from both his research and his consultancy services.
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