Two Afghan women scholars write about how Afghan women’s groups have been fighting for human rights, both now and historically.
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Indonesia can serve as an important model for the Taliban of how Muslim nations and faith-based organisations can play a big role in expanding girls’ education.
The Taliban’s punishments are at odds with many basic principles of Islamic law.
This summer’s disintegration of the Afghan government and continuing political turmoil in Iraq provide valuable lessons for the U.S. and its mission to impose democracy on the rest of the world.
The image of a post-Brexit Britain with a strong international presence is being lost to the so-called special relationship.
Madrassas don’t just provide an education that may lead to terrorism. They provide critical financial support to impoverished people.
How can we reconcile competing claims that colonialism of any kind is detrimental with the view that Afghanistan has been failed by the West?
Despite efforts to prevent militant groups from getting weapons, they often get their hands on U.S. equipment and use it to attack American troops.
War rugs are more reflections of market forces than memorials to suffering.
Drones are not the ethical, precise weapons they’re made out to be.
From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban outlawed almost all forms of art while looting and destroying museums. With their resurgence, Australia must strengthen measures to stop trafficking of antiquities.
The dangerous situation faced by Afghans who want to flee, but can’t, shows how unwilling or unprepared the US and other countries are to deal with refugees.
European leaders expressed solidarity with people trapped in Kabul with no reference to the people trapped in makeshift camps on its periphery.
Segregation and other measures being introduced by the Taliban’s hardline new government are being greeted with widespread protests, many of them led by women.
With the Taliban again in power in Afghanistan, minorities like the Hazara may have the most to lose.
It was the day the US realised it was fighting a different kind of war.
In the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia looks like an increasingly desirable international partner across much of the globe.
The Taliban have at least five significant potential sources of revenue as they begin to govern Afghanistan again.
There are many reasons to be wary of the returned Taliban, but given our investment in the region the Australian government will have to find a way to deal with it.
The recent Taliban takeover has observers worried about Afghan education. But even under western occupation, the education system was plagued by corruption and political instability.
Top contributors
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Reader in Sociology, City, University of London
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, School of History and Philosophy, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Professor, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Visiting Research Professor, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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PhD Candidate in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University
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Faculty Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor in Conflict and Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor of International Relations and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Agnes Scott College
