The moment
Five years on, the lesson is clear
Five years after Kabul, the same failure keeps repeating: nations recruit local allies for their hardest missions, then leave them exposed when the mission ends. What happened to Afghan allies was not an accident of one withdrawal. It is what happens everywhere there is no standard for protecting the people who serve.
This briefing is about changing that, before the next crisis rather than after it. AfghanEvac and Local Staff International are releasing the record and the standard together, so that the promise made to wartime allies becomes an obligation nations can be held to.
What we are releasing
The record, and the standard
An accounting of the promise
Our record of how nations have kept, and broken, faith with their wartime allies. It puts the commitments and the failures side by side, so the pattern is impossible to ignore and the next government has no excuse not to see it.
A standard to be held to
A set of protective guidelines for the local staff who serve international missions, drawn from what these five years taught us. Not a wish list, a workable standard governments and organizations can adopt before the next withdrawal, not after.
What to expect
The agenda
The Allied Ledger
We release the accounting and walk through what it shows about promises kept and broken.
The Guidelines
We introduce the Local Staff International Guidelines and the standard they set.
Next steps
We discuss what comes next, and how governments, organizations, and advocates can act on it.
Who should attend
This is for everyone in the fight
Whether you shaped this policy, reported on it, or lived it, this briefing is for you.
- Government and military officials working on relocation, resettlement, and ally protection
- Advocates, coalition partners, and veterans service organizations
- Journalists covering Afghan allies and the wider question of wartime commitments
- Afghan allies, local staff, and anyone who has served alongside an international mission
Register
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The briefing is free and virtual. Register once, and you will receive your Zoom login details by email ahead of August 12.
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