Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by the Chicago Tribune, "Afghan Aid Faces Reshaping Amid War."
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Rick Barton, codirector of the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, was quoted by the Chicago Tribune, "Afghan Aid Faces Reshaping Amid War."
The Bush administration is signaling strong support for Afghanistan by sending First Lady Laura Bush to headline a donors' conference in Paris this week. But competing agendas among all the countries involved may stymie real progress toward rebuilding the war-torn country.
Afghans have suggested that aid should be channeled through their government instead of through non-governmental organizations or international contractors. [...]
"It's still not clear who is in charge—President [Hamid] Karzai, the U.S., which part of the U.S., NATO," said Frederick Barton, co-director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Read the article
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