Mariam Safi is Head of the Research Department at the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS), one of the leading research centres in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is an analyst in the field of peace and conflict and her research and analytical endeavours aim to evaluate the framework of reconciliation and reintegration as transformation tools in conflict societies in addition to examining the role of democratization and regional politics in this process. She is also Insight on Conflict's local correspondent for Afghanistan.