Initiatives
The Khana Project
Afghanistan's divisions were not natural. They were manufactured, deepened by decades of foreign interference and by political actors who found fragmentation more useful than national cohesion. The Khana Project is KI's program for addressing that fracture on Afghan terms — through research, structured dialogue, and the sustained work of rebuilding social trust. Khana means home in Dari. The name reflects what this project is ultimately about: the possibility of Afghans coming home to a country that belongs to them.
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Afghanistan Recovery Blueprint
The international community spent twenty years and trillions of dollars in Afghanistan without producing a state Afghans owned, trusted, or were willing to defend. The Afghanistan Recovery Blueprint is KI's answer to that failure — an integrated program of research, policy analysis, roundtable dialogue, and advocacy designed to produce the most rigorous, credible Afghan-led roadmap for rebuilding the Afghan state. This is not a wish list. It is serious, evidence-based work grounded in what actually happened and what a legitimate Afghan state would actually require.
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Hindukush Climate Security Initiative
Afghanistan produces less than 0.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is among the most climate-vulnerable countries on earth. Glaciers are retreating, droughts are longer, floods are worse, and a country already fractured by conflict has no functioning government to respond. The Hindukush Climate Security Initiative treats climate change in Afghanistan not as an environmental issue but as a security and governance crisis — one that demands Afghan-led analysis, international accountability, and a voice at the tables where climate policy is made.
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Beyond the Frontlines
Afghanistan has been covered extensively. It has rarely been explained honestly. Beyond the Frontlines is KI's public engagement podcast — a space for Afghan practitioners, analysts, and civil society voices to speak directly about what is happening in Afghanistan and what needs to happen next, without the filter of outside agendas. Each episode goes where the headlines do not, bringing Afghan expertise to audiences that need to understand this country on its own terms.
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