Based on a conference of the European Centre of Afghan Studies (ECAS) held on Mar. 3, 2007, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Beyond "The wild tribes": working towards an understanding of contemporary Afghanistan / Ceri Oeppen and Angela Schlenkhoff -- Challenges to research in Afghanistan and its diaspora / Angela Schlenkhoff -- Britain in the first two Afghan wars: what can we learn? / Bijan Omrani and Charles Vyvyan -- The situation of women and girls in Afghanistan / Kathryn Lockett -- The political economy of normlessness in Afghanistan / Armando Geller -- Keeping the peace; gender, justice and authority: mechanisms for community based dispute resolution in Afghanistan / Deborah J. Smith -- Dilemmas of governance in Afghanistan: between patrimonialism and bureaucratisation / Antonio Giustozzi -- What prevents Afghanistan becoming a landbridge? / Valey Arya -- The return of the refugee warrior: migration and armed resistance in Herat / Kristian Berg Harpviken -- The Afghan diaspora and its involvement in the reconstruction of Afghanistan / Ceri Oeppen -- The circulation of music between Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora / John Baily -- Afghan migratory strategies and the three solutions to the refugee problem / Alessandro Monsutti.