Stuart Poucher
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Stuart Poucher, a retired British colonel, is today an international electoral expert. He served in numerous electoral missions in developing countries, usually in the context of United Nations
United Nations
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 or European Union
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 operations.

His most notable achievement was the organization of the 2004 out-of-country elections for Afghan
Afghanistan
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 refugee
Refugee
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s in Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

, Pakistan
Pakistan
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, which included voter education followed by registration and voting for almost one million refugees from Afghanistan.
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