Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 08/2010

Norway's strategic challenges in Afghanistan: how to make a difference?

Ståle Ulriksen

April 2010

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

Abstract

Norway may be a marginal actor in Afghanistan as a whole, but its troop contingent and development aid programmes mean that it does play an important role in the north-west of the country as part of a joint overall effort with its allies and friends. This role is now facing a twofold test.