
One connected region. Three countries.
The Avesta region is analysed as a whole — Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan — not as three separate files. Select a country to open its coverage focus, fields of expertise and standby Talent Pool.
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Talent Pool
A vetted standby network of Afghan analysts, field observers and subject specialists, available on call for mandate-specific work.

Afghanistan
34.5°N 69.2°EDeep, continuous coverage of Afghanistan's political order, security landscape, governance and human-rights conditions.
- Political order & de-facto governance
- Security & armed-actor dynamics
- Human rights & civic space
- Humanitarian & displacement context
- AF·1
Governance & Rule of Law
Senior analyst · Dari/Pashto
- AF·2
Security & Conflict
Field-experienced · Pashto
- AF·3
Human Rights & Gender
Regional specialist · Dari
Individual expert profiles — names, titles and photographs — are shared under NDA on a need-to-know basis for a specific mandate.
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