Publications

Policy Briefs

Rigorous, evidence-based analysis on Afghanistan's governance, reconstruction, peacebuilding, and climate security — produced by Afghans, for policymakers, donors, researchers, and anyone who needs to understand Afghanistan without the filter of outside agendas.

KI Policy Brief Series

KI publishes policy briefs across its three institutional pillars — State Building and Accountability, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation, and Climate Security and Fragility — as well as the Afghanistan Recovery Atlas series. New briefs are published on a rolling basis. All briefs are free to download.

State Building & Accountability
Policy Brief — No. 01
State Building

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Policy Brief — No. 02
State Building

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Peacebuilding & Reconciliation
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Peacebuilding

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Peacebuilding

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Climate Security & Fragility
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Climate Security

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Policy Brief — No. 08
Climate Security

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Policy Brief — No. 09
Climate Security

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Afghanistan Recovery Atlas
Atlas Brief — Wave 01 / No. 01
Recovery Atlas

The Anatomy of Collapse: How Afghanistan's State Failed

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An analysis of the structural, institutional, and political causes of Afghanistan's governance collapse — from the distortions of international assistance to the corruption architectures that hollowed the state from within.

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Atlas Brief — Wave 01 / No. 02
Recovery Atlas

Two Trillion Dollars: The Political Economy of Failure

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A rigorous accounting of how international assistance was structured, directed, and ultimately wasted in Afghanistan — and what the political economy of that assistance reveals about the incentives that drove it.

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Atlas Brief — Wave 02 / No. 06
Recovery Atlas

The Minimum Viable State: Four Pillars for Afghanistan

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A framework for defining what a minimum viable Afghan state would require across security, governance, economic foundations, and social contract — the baseline conditions for any legitimate reconstruction effort.

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Atlas Brief — Wave 03 / No. 11
Recovery Atlas

Structured Devolution: Rebuilding from the Province Up

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A governance architecture for structured devolution of power and resources to Afghanistan's provinces and districts — addressing the over-centralization failures of the post-2001 period.

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Atlas Brief — Wave 03 / No. 12
Recovery Atlas

Security Sector Reform: What Actually Works in Afghanistan

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An evidence-based analysis of security sector reform in Afghanistan — what was tried, what failed, and what a credible Afghan-led security framework would actually require.

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Atlas Brief — Wave 04 / No. 20
Recovery Atlas

The Afghanistan Recovery Atlas: A Ten-Year Roadmap

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The capstone document of the Atlas series — a complete, sector-by-sector ten-year reconstruction roadmap for Afghanistan, with sequenced priorities, resource requirements, and measurable milestones.

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