When President Obama announced a new strategy for Afghanistan in his West Point speech in December 2009, he also made it clear that he had plans to begin a transition process to Afghan leadership by July 2011. In order to allow transition to be effective, President Karzai and the international community will have to demonstrate success not only in security provision and the development of the Afghan National Security Forces, but also on broader issues such as building a capable and legitimate government, progress on development, governance, managing crime and countering corruption.

RUSI, Transparency International UK and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung co-organised three seminars that were designed to explore the challenges the international community faces on governance, development and corruption issues in Afghanistan. The ultimate aim was to contribute to the process of defining the necessary steps forward to make transition to Afghan leadership and control possible. The seminars brought together Afghanistan experts, government officials from Afghanistan, NATO countries and representatives from other key players in Kabul. The result of this project is the strategy paper "Afghanistan in transition: Reshaping priorities for 2015 and beyond" that will be presented in Berlin, Kabul and London.

Time: 11:00-12:30