The Other Sides of Afghanistan: A Regional Perspective on Security Issues in Afghanistan, 4–5 November 2011, Zurich

The objective of the international workshop hosted by the CSS was to analyze the regional dimension to security in Afghanistan, and assess the increasingly high-profile focus on the role that a common regional approach could play in the stabilization of Afghanistan. Area studies specialists on all of the states bordering Afghanistan, as well as regional powers in close proximity – including Amin Saikal, Marc Lanteigne, Shaun Gregory and Marlene Laruelle – examined these countries' perceptions of and strategy towards the Afghan security situation. Drawing on the analysis of these states, the workshop considered the prospects for and likely nature of a regionally coordinated approach to Afghanistan.