AISS releases its research paper on ‘Peace’ Today (Jan 12th, 2017), the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) its latest research paper, titled, "Four Decades of Efforts for Peace and Reconciliation in Afghanistan: Analysis of The Impediments and Barriers to Sustainable Peace". This research paper has investigated all active factors and components involved in causing and driving the conflict in Afghanistan through different periods, beginning by the 1978 coup to the present era.