Four months after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, a clearer picture of their rule is emerging. Despite public assurances, the Taliban continue to violate human rights.
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As Canada welcomes refugees from Afghanistan, we must take a moment to learn from the past. Communities across Canada need to be asking how they can be supporting young refugees in their integration.
The Taliban is recruiting a unit of suicide bombers to combat insurgency in Afghanistan.
To prosper after the legacy of imperialism and colonization, Afghanistan needs partnerships and business investment, not bullets and bombs.
Even if the money were released, the likelihood of the corrupt and inept Taliban using it to fix the humanitarian crisis afflicting the country is remote.
As the Afghan economy collapses, drugs and people smuggling are booming.
New research, based on interviews with Afghan-Australians, shows most want to stay in their new country forever. But they don’t feel accepted in their new home.
The problems of the withdrawal were clear in my experience trying to help Afghan researchers.
Even in the absence of a moral motive to alleviate famine, there is a strong rationale for the West to do whatever’s necessary to alleviate hunger in Afghanistan this winter.
Violent performance is the Taliban’s language. If we view them as savage, backward or misogynistic, the opportunity to learn how to face them is missed.
Scott Lucas, foreign policy expert, and Kambaiz Rafi, political economy researcher, discuss potential developments in Afghanistan under the new Taliban government.
An already bitterly divided public has reacted badly to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and Biden’s handling of the COVID crisis.
With travel to Afghanistan is nearly impossible right now and difficult questions over the types of evidence that would be admissible in court, investigators have their work cut out for them.
As the West contemplates how to engage with the increasingly brutal Taliban government in Afghanistan, the country’s people will suffer enormously.
Afghanistan is facing a looming hunger crisis. But the world must engage with the Taliban on purely pragmatic and humanitarian grounds, without extending formal recognition.
The Taliban is responsible for atrocities dating back to the 1990s, but has never been held responsible. The international community can play a role in ending the impunity.
Hiding the suffering and deaths of some from public view while showing others implies that certain lives are more valuable.
With 95% of households in Afghanistan not consuming enough food and the economy on the brink of collapse, this is a perilous time for the children of the country.
The age-old idea that Afghan women need rescuing from their men is a western construct that ignores the voices of Afghan women.
A scholar from Afghanistan outlines what more than $150 billion in assistance did and didn’t accomplish in two decades following the arrival of U.S. troops un 2001.
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Reader in Sociology, City St George's, University of London
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor, School of History and Philosophy, UNSW
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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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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Senior Research Fellow, Initiative for Peacebuilding, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University
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Non-resident Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Clemson University