Can Development Win a Counterinsurgency?

Village elders in Paktiya province try to settle a land dispute so a district center can be built by the Provincial Reconstruction Team.

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CREDIT: Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
A school built several years ago by the Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team sits unused because there are no funds to pay teachers.

CREDIT: Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
A shura (community meeting) for the youth of Khost province attended by Capt. Steve Deal, commander of the Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team.

Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
U.S. military engineers examine a retaining wall built with U.S. funds near a mosque in Khost province.

CREDIT: Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
An elder chastises the governor of Paktiya province over the incomplete Khost-Gardez road project funded by USAID.

CREDIT: Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
A Provincial Development Council meeting in Gardez City, Paktiya province.

Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
A lawyer talking with military and USAID representatives during a women’s shura hosted by the Paktiya Provincial Reconstruction Team.

CREDIT: Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
An Afghan girl in a village in Paktiya province. Rural areas have seen little improvement in basic services over the last decade.

Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.
Lt. Col. Marshal Magee, commander of the Paktiya Provincial Reconstruction Team, after a tribal council meeting in Shawak District.

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CREDIT: Photograph by Maura R. O’Connor.