ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews attempts to resolve the pasturelands conflict since the signing of the Bonn Agreement in 2001, which ended the last formal Taliban regime. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) took the initiative to help the Ministry of Agriculture adopt a more grassroots approach to resolution of the pasturelands conflict. The view among many non-Pashtun in the north and Hazara in the central highlands was that they had not fought the long war and liberated themselves and their natural resources from Pashtun domination only to see that domination reinstated. The various considerations outlined in this chapter consolidates strategy for resolving conflicting claims to high pasturelands. The government of Afghanistan pledged to use its own budget to cover implementation costs and to engage local and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) known to be skilled in peacebuilding and negotiation. In addition, UNEP committed to making senior technical advisers available.
