Beginning June 23, all of the main state bodies in Afghanistan will lose their constitutional basis. The Afghan Parliament’s term will end on June 22 with no new parliament in line to replace it due to the government’s failure to hold elections this past April. The executive branch, led by the national unity government, also lacks a constitutio...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) was pleased to host Indian Ambassador, H.E. Amar Sinha, in Kabul as part of the “High Tea with the Ambassador” lecture series.

Government officials, members of parliament, academia as well as civil society activists attended the event.

AISS Director, Dr. Davood Moradian in hi...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) singed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Pakistan’s Regional Peace Institute (RPI). The MoC provides a framework of cooperation between the two research institutes for conducting joint projects, including, publication, conferences and public consultation at bilateral and multilateral levels...

The first round of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Bilateral Dialogue was held in Islamabad on June 7-8, 2015 under the umbrella theme of  the “Consolidating the Gains: Exploring Avenues and Methodologies to Pursue Joint Objectives”.

Regional Peace Institute (RPI) organized the Dialogue in collaboration with the Afghan Institute for Strategi...

The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) has commenced its first research project in security studies to explore the conception of security in Persian/Sufi sources & the possibility of synergizing Persian/Sufi approaches with contemporary conceptions of security. The two-years old project aims to articulate a conception of security bas...