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Afghanistan-Projekt

Since the removal of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan has been confronted with the urgent task of reconstructing and restructuring the state system. The legal bases for this process are the Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-Establishment of Permanent Government Institutions of 5 December 2001, also known as the Petersburg Agreement, and the Afghan Constitution, which entered into force on 25 January 2004.

Project time frame: Beginning of project: 2003
End of project: open-ended
Status of Project: aktiv

Project Director:

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum

Project Staff:

Under Prof. Rüdiger Wolfrum’s supervision, the project staff at the Max Planck Institute includes: Dr. Rainer Grote, Markus Benzing, Mandana Knust, Ramin Moschtaghi, and Klaus Zimmermann. Also involved as student assistants are Simone Malz and Noemi Majer.

Cooperative Partners:

Various parts of the project are or have been financed by the German Federal Foreign Office, the European Union, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Alongside these partners, the Max Planck Institute is also working together with various Afghan partners in the respective parts of the project (the Supreme Court, Ministry of Justice, Office of the General Prosecutor, Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission, Judicial Reform Commission, and University of Kabul) as well as with international partners (GTZ, UNDP, the World Bank, UNAMA, Institut International de Paris La Défense, Ecole Nationale d'Administration/Paris, and UNODC).
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The Project

Without an effective judicial and administrative system, based on the rule of law, political stability in Afghanistan cannot be sustained.  With this premise, Heidelberg’s Max Planck Institute has carried out multiple projects in the judicial system and the area of public administration.  Five such projects have already been successfully completed, and one is still in progress for the time being.  The separate projects are described below.
 
Specifically, the following projects are included:

The Single Projects

  1. Two workshops on the Afghan Constitution in Kabul and Herat (January 2004)
  2. "Winter School" in Heidelberg for deans and vice-deans of Afghan law schools on the topic of "legal education" (February 2004) 
  3. International conference in Heidelberg on the new Afghan Constitution under the title "The Shari'a in the Afghan Constitution" (February 2004)
  4. Support in establishing an Afghan college for administration
  5. Academic conference in Tehran on "International Law and the Islamic World: Towards a Multipolar International Legal System" (April 2004)
  6. Continuing education of judges and prosecutors in fair trial standards for criminal proceedings

Downloads

MultiMedia-File Constitution of Afghanistan (german) (244.7 KB)
MultiMedia-File Constitution of Afghanistan (dari/paschtu) (6639.0 KB)

Further Links

Cooperative law
Industrial development law
Licensing regulations for private foreign traders and firms in Afghanistan
Model by law for a primary agricultural cooperative in the Republic of Afghanistan
Penal Code
Penal law for crimes of civil servants and crimes against public welfare and security
Postal law
Press law
Radio law
Report of the UN Secretary-General 2003
ICG Briefing on Loya Jirga
Short report on the Constitution draft, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation
SWP report on further development of Afghanistan
AI-Report on re-establishing the rule of law
Federal Foreign Office
Ambassade Afghanistan Berlin
http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/de/aussenpolitik/friedenspolitik/afghanistan/deutsches_engagement_html
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1631&l=1
 
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