Table of Contents

Ploughshares Documents and Meetings
Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan
Responding to the Events of September 11, 2001

Ploughshares Documents and Meetings

Afghanistan: Situation Normal
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, January 31, 2010

Towards a two-pronged peace mission in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, December 10, 2010

Ecumenical Brief on Canada's Role in Afghanistan (English) (French)
The Canadian Council of Churches, December 10, 2009
For presentation to the House of Commons Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan (AFGH)

Afghanistan: The negotiation track
Ernie Regehr
Building the case for negotiations among all interested parties in Afghanistan.
The Ploughshares Monitor, Winter 2009

Negotiation inevitable in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Waterloo Region Record, October 29, 2009

Afghanistan: in search of a “high-level political settlement”
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, October 8, 2009

Towards an International Commission on the Resort to Force
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, July 27, 2009

Peacekeepers or Warfighters?
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, April 22, 2009

Obama's New Plan for Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, March 29, 2009

Afghanistan: Still Confusing NATO and ISAF
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, March 12, 2009

Canada's Automatic Weapons Gift to Afghanistan: Were Canadian Military Export Regulations Followed?
Ernie Regehr
Briefing 09/2, February 2009

Afghanistan: Overcoming the Diplomacy Deficit
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, October 8, 2008

MPs embrace the need for a new Afghan peace process
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, July 22, 2008

Making peace in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Waterloo Region Record, July 12, 2008

Nothing unusual in reopening Afghan peace agreement
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, July 7, 2008

Conversations in Kabul on military intervention and political reconciliation
Ernie Regehr
Observations from a recent trip to Afghanistan.
The Ploughshares Monitor, Summer 2008

Conversations in Kabul on Military Intervention and Political Reconciliation
Ernie Regehr
Briefing 08/2, June 2008

Towards an international reconciliation assistance program in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, June 23, 2008

One Afghan academic’s formula for peace
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, June 3, 2008

A peace to keep in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
How Canada can help to nurture and grow the peace.
The Ploughshares Monitor, Spring 2008

From Manley Report to sustainable peace in Afghanistan: You can’t get there from here!
John Siebert
A response to the final report of the Manley Panel.
The Ploughshares Monitor, Spring 2008

From amnesty to a peace process
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, March 30 , 2008

Will a switch from counterinsurgency combat leave Afghans vulnerable?
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, March 14, 2008

Afghan Mission Motion Misses Three Key Issues
Ernie Regehr
Embassy, March 5, 2008

Our tactics in Afghanistan must change
Ernie Regehr
The Record, Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, February 29, 2008

Towards a real national consensus – in Canada and Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, February 26, 2008

A Peace to Keep in Afghanistan-V: Training the Afghans for permanent war?
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, February 21, 2008

A Peace to Keep in Afghanistan-IV: Chapter VII Peacekeeping in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, February 18, 2008

A Peace to Keep in Afghanistan-III: Still losing the counter-insurgency war in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, February 16, 2008

A Peace to Keep in Afghanistan-II: The search for winning conditions in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, February 15, 2008

A Peace to Keep in Afghanistan-I: The Military Choice in Afghanistan is not between Combat and No Combat
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, February 14, 2008

Forces in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Letter to the Editor, The Globe and Mail, February 9, 2008

A Peace to Keep in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Briefing 08/1, February 2008

Questions about Canada’s automatic weapons gift to Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, January 2008

E-Newsletter, December 2007
Documents and meetings as reported in the December 2007 E-Newsletter.

Failed states and the limits to force: The challenge of Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
The Ploughshares Monitor, Winter 2007

The Independent Panel on Canada’s Future Role in Afghanistan
John Siebert
The Ploughshares Monitor, Winter 2007

The Afghanistan Panel and the Diplomacy “D”
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, October 2007

The sixth anniversary of the attack on Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, October 2007

E-Newsletter, September 2007
Documents and meetings as reported in the September 2007 E-Newsletter.

Are calls for negotiation in Afghanistan premature?
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, September 2007

Building consensus on Canada’s role in Afghanistan
John Siebert
The Ploughshares Monitor, Autumn 2007

The General, the Minister, and the Taliban
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, August 2007

Getting on with “talking to the Taliban”
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, August 2007

Church Letters to the Prime Minister on Afghanistan
25 June 2007 and 16 August 2007

Rethinking the Afghanistan Mission
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, July 2007

Closing the Afghanistan credibility gap
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, July 2007

E-Newsletter, June 2007
Documents and meetings as reported in the June 2007 E-Newsletter.

It’s not really a matter of hate
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, May 2007

Myth-making, peace-making, and sacrifice in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, April 2007

What's missing in Senate report: To win 'hearts and minds,' the corrupt and incompetent Karzai regime must be reined in
Ernie Regehr
Toronto Star, 14 February 2007

E-Newsletter, February 2007
Documents and meetings as reported in the February 2007 E-Newsletter.

Afghanistan: The Unfinished Political Reforms
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, January 2007

E-Newsletter, December 2006
Documents and meetings as reported in the December 2006 E-Newsletter.

Afghanistan: It’s not about NATO
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, November 2006

Canada is ignoring its own advice
Ernie Regehr
Inroads: The Canadian Journal of Opinion, Issue 20, November 2006

Revisiting the “third way” in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, November 2006

Briefing on the situation in Afghanistan
Ernie Regehr
Presentation to The House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. November 8, 2006.

Is there a "third way" in Afghanistan?
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, October 2006

Talking to the Taliban
Ernie Regehr
Disarming Conflict Blog, September 2006

Afghanistan: From good intentions to sustainable solutions
Ernie Regehr
Briefing 06/5

Canada in Afghanistan: Considerations for a Parliamentary debate
Ernie Regehr
Briefing 06/3

Why is Canada in Afghanistan?
Ernie Regehr
The Ploughshares Monitor, Spring 2006
Sidebars: The Canadian presence in Afghanistan/The UN mandate

Afghanistan: Toward counter-insurgency by other means
Ernie Regehr
Briefing 06/1

Security first: Afghanistan's security sector reform process
Mark Sedra
The Ploughshares Monitor, Winter 2003

Canadian troops in Afghanistan
Ken Epps
The Ploughshares Monitor, Winter 2003

Independent Panel on Canada's Future Role in Afghanistan
(The Manley Panel, January 2008)

Responses to the Panel's Report

The Canadian Council of Churches (English) (French)
Group of 78, CPCC, WFN-Canada
CARE, Oxfam, World Vision
Canadian Council for International Co-operation
Development and Peace (English) (French)
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (English) (French)

Response of the Hon. Beverley Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, to the Canadian Council of Churches' letters on Afghanistan. These include the CCC's January 2008 response to the Manley Panel as well as letters sent in June 2007 and August 2007.

Submissions to the Panel

The Afghanistan Reference Group (ARG), a network of Canadian civil society organizations (including Project Ploughshares) and individuals interested in peace, justice and development in Afghanistan co-convened by CPCC and CCIC, provided
three submissions to the panel:
1) Security and Peace
2) Human Rights, Gender Equality
3) Humanitarian Assistance, Development and Governance
Press Release on ARG Submissions to the Manley Panel

The Canadian Council for International Co-operation provided a letter and submission to the panel.

Prior to this, the ARG had prepared briefing notes as background for members of parliament:
Briefing Note on Better Development
Briefing Note on More Diplomacy
Briefing Note on Real Security
These were also used as speaking notes at a press conference organized by the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC) on October 12, 2007 in Ottawa.

Responding to the Events of September 11, 2001

Canada's response to terrorism: An ecumenical appeal to Parliament
October 12, 2001 (English) (French)

Church leaders write to members of their churches after the tragedy in the United States September 21, 2001

Canadian Council of Churches letter to the Prime Minister on a response to the events of September 11, 2001 September 21, 2001

Where is God in all this?
Walter Pitman
Reflections on the events of September 11 by the chairperson of Project Ploughshares.
The Ploughshares Monitor, September 2001

Responding to terror
Ernie Regehr
The Ploughshares Monitor, September 2001