Opinions




Humane Security: Conceptualizing Love for Peace from Below

  Saturday, June 29, 2019

Professor Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh's remarks at the second international symposium of “Herat School of Security”

From security from above to security from below

We are witnessing an unsettling amount of...

How Free Press Has Strengthened Democracy in Afghanistan

  Tuesday, June 11, 2019

By M. Ashraf Haidari

Afghanistan has experimented with different forms of government since its emergence as a modern nation-state. From absolute and constitutional monarchies to the first republic and communist/Marxist regimes, never has Afgha...

Why Khalilzad Diplomacy is Catastrophic for Afghanistan?

  Sunday, May 26, 2019

By Dr. Yaqub Ibrahimi

In the six rounds of bilateral talks between Zalmai Khalilzad and the Taliban, there was no promising prospect for Afghanistan. Khalilzad’s diplomacy and the so-called Qatar process have had three clear outcomes: th...

Uzbekistan Perspective: Ensuring Regional Security and Countering Extremism and Terrorism

  Sunday, May 05, 2019

By H.E Ismatulla Irgashev

I would like to present our vision of the prospects for the development of the situation in Central Asia, including Afghanistan, which we regard as an integral part of...

Editing the Past: Colonial Production of Hegemony Through the “Loya Jerga” in Afghanistan

  Thursday, May 02, 2019

By M. Jamil Hanifi

The central government of Afghanistan disintegrated in April 1992 setting in motion the collapse of the Afghan state apparatus that culminated in the occupation of the country by the armed forces of the United States in Autu...