Jacob Townsend

Jacob Townsend has been a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Central Asia, Afghanistan and the Asia-Pacific. He is currently based in Kabul.

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Articles by Jacob Townsend

Upcoming Changes to the Drug-Insurgency Nexus in Afghanistan

While there are many Taliban-controlled villages in Afghanistan that do not cultivate opium, there are few villages cultivating opium that are not under Taliban control. The concentration of opium production

Media Appearances

Jamestown Senior Fellow Olevs Nikers Interviewed by L’Express

Jamestown Senior Fellow Olevs Nikers was recently interviewed by French news outlet L’Express about the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit (NATO) in Washington DC... MORE

Books and Reports

Militant Leadership Monitor – September 2018

The September 2018 issue of Militant Leadership Monitor features a brief on the leaders of a Mozambican militant leaders recently revealed by local police; as wells as a synopsis of the multiple Libyan militant leaders responsible for the recent violence in Tripoli; a profile of Shaikh Aslam Farooqi, the... MORE