Travers Child Guest Editor Afghanistan issue of Economics of Peace & Security Journal

This issue introduces a four-article symposium on stability and reconstruction across Afghanistan. The symposium was entitled ‘On the Ground: Field Research from Afghanistan’. The contributors are experienced practitioners and/or field researchers drawn from a spectrum of the social sciences. Each of them has established a physical presence in Afghanistan for a significant period of time. Consequently, this symposium elucidates some critical aspects of the conflict and development phenomena which have thus far been overlooked. The Economics of Peace and Security Journal (EPSJ), a publication of Economists for Peace and Security (EPS), is an online peer-reviewed academic journal.

Travers is an alumnus of the TI MPhil program (2013). He is a PhD candidate in development economics at the VU University Amsterdam, supervised by TI fellows Chris Elbers and Remco Oostendorp. His PhD research is funded through a Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) grant.