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Afghan peace talks are damaged, but not yet broken

USIP’s Andrew Wilder sees an urgent need to get the peace effort back on track.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019 / By: USIP Staff; Andrew Wilder, Ph.D.

President Trump’s weekend announcement of a halt to U.S. peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban—including a previously unannounced U.S. plan for a Camp David meeting to conclude that process—leaves the future of the Afghanistan peace process unclear. USIP’s Andrew Wilder, a longtime Afghanistan analyst, argues that, rather than declaring an end to the peace process, U.S. negotiators could use the setback as a moment to clarify the strategy, and then urgently get the peace process back on track before too much momentum is lost.

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