Promoting Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: The Ambiguous Footprint of the West

A Liberal Peace?: The Problems and Practices of Peacebuilding

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 106-120

  Chaudhary, Torunn Wimpelmann ^a,b   Nemat, Orzala Ashraf ^a   Suhrke, Astri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

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