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Interview with Ali Ahmad Jalali*

Distinguished Professor at the National Defense University, Washington, DC.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2012

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Abstract

For this issue on understanding armed groups, the Review considered it important to invite someone who could give the inside perspective of an armed group. Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali, currently Distinguished Professor at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, is uniquely placed to do so in the context of Afghanistan: he has at once the experience of a former member of the Mujahideen during the war against the Soviet Union, a former Colonel in the Afghan National Army, and a former Minister of the Interior for Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005. Minister Jalali has published extensively on political, military, and security issues in Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.

Type
Understanding Armed Groups and the Applicable Law
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 93 , Issue 882: Understanding armed groups and the applicable law , June 2011 , pp. 279 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2012

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References

1 Note from the Editor: the exact figure is still disputed. See e.g. the statistics on Afghanistan by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), available at: http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/page?page=49e486eb6 (last visited 21 September 2011).

2 See ‘The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: the Layha (code of conduct) for Mujahids’, in International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 93, No. 881, March 2011, pp. 103–120.