Senlis council

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The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank with offices in Kabul, London, Paris and Brussels. The Council’s work encompasses foreign policy, security, development and counter-narcotics policies and aims to provide innovative analysis and proposals within these areas. The extensive programme currently underway in Afghanistan focuses on global policy development in conjunction with field research to investigate the relationship between counter-narcotics, military, and development policies and their consequences on Afghanistan’s reconstruction efforts. Senlis Afghanistan has field offices in the Afghan cities of Lashkar Gah, Kandahar and Herat.

The council began in the late 1990s as a European-based organization devoted to drug policy. Its papers and statements, produced by a circle of European medical experts, have consistently argued against treating narcotics as a predominantly criminal matter, and have called in some cases for decriminalization of drugs and safe-use programs.

Some time after the launch of the United Nations-mandated war in Afghanistan in 2001, the Senlis Council became increasingly devoted to the issue of opium-poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, once again arguing for a more lenient policy than that pursued by the United States and NATO in their campaigns. Since 2003, the Senlis Council has become a more general-purpose think tank on issues surrounding Afghanistan.

[edit] Opium Licensing

One of the major policy recommendations to come from the Senlis Council is the licensing of opium in Afghanistan for pharmaceutical purposes. It based on the premise that there are two problems that need to be solved: 1) Afghanistan's reliance on opium, 2) A lack of opiate-based medicines available for pharmaceutical purposes

They contend that this would be a short-to-medium term solution to address the opium crisis that is currently occurring in Afghanistan, since alternative livelihoods programs in the country will take many years to come to fruition and no crop matches the agronomic properties of opium. Meanwhile, there is a shortage of morphine in developed countries and this is an even greater problem in developing countries, compounded by the growing rates of HIV/AIDS and cancer around the world.

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