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Over the last years there has been an increasingly vocal call for improved coherence and coordination among the international community engaged in Afghanistan. However, it has become evident that such coherence is extremely daunting task to achieve. Despite the seemingly united call for coherence and coordination, the various initiatives and concepts do not necessarily pertain to the same thing, and as importantly, may hide strong competing political agendas beneath the surface. This article seeks to analyze these conflicts among the international actors with the aim of better understanding the obstacles as well as the potential for increased collaboration.