Consul Karen E. Johnson Shares Insights on Afghanistan
December 14, 2007. Consul General Karen E. Johnson was an invited speaker at a two-day German Canadian workshop on ‘NATO and the International Engagement in Afghanistan’ organized by the Hamburg-based Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and hosted by the German Armed Forces Staff and Command College. CG Johnson shared her assessment of the US engagement in Afghanistan based on her personal experience as the Provincial Reconstruction Team Director for the US Embassy in Kabul. 
Dr. Hans-Georg Ehrhart, Institute
for Peace Research and Security Policy,
CG Karen E. Johnson, Captain Heinz
Dieter Jopp, head, Security Policy and
Strategy Section, German Armed
Forces Staff and Command College
She reminded the group of 24 experts that international engagement in Afghanistan must be seen as a longtime engagement and that successful reconstruction can only be achieved in a stable security context.
