Founder Aref Dostyar (in speaking motion in the picture) initiated a conference together with his fellow Afghan Fulbright colleagues in Washington DC to discuss Afghan and US strategies on insurgency, governance and rule of law in Afghanistan.

Dostyar and his colleagues presented their new set of policy recommendations for a more peaceful Afghanistan at the US Institute of Peace, and met with diplomats at the US Department of State and with the Afghan Ambassador at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington DC.