How Do People Negotiate With the Taliban?

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Yen: It's useful to think of sort of two afghanistans. One is the liberal elite who have really benefited from 20 years of intervention. And then there's the other afghanistan, and that's mainly in the country,. In places where there was aid programms in investment, but were security deteriorated. How do people manage to negotiate and get what they wanted from insurgents? Wa efansy you are in a lot of these ine felle back up; i'm trying to find a way to solve problems.

While the Taliban have the power of violence on their side in Afghanistan, they nonetheless need civilians to comply with their authority. Both strategically and by necessity, civilians have leveraged this reliance on their obedience in order to influence Taliban behaviour. In this week's episode Ashley Jackson author or Negotiating Survival speaks to Rosamund Urwin about her new model for understanding how civilian agency can shape the conduct of insurgencies. They also discuss Taliban strategy and objectives, explaining how the organisation has so nearly triumphed on the battlefield and in peace talks. While Afghanistan’s future is deeply unpredictable, there is one certainty: it is as critical as ever to understand the Taliban—and how civilians survive their rule. To find out more about the book and to order it click here: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/negotiating-survival/

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