Hazara Civil Society Activists and Local, National, and International Political Institutions

Chiovenda, Melissa Kerr

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“…At the same time, Pashtun nomads not only were required to pay any tax but received allowances from the central government (Ibid p. 163). It is estimated that, during Abdur Rahman's campaign against Hazaras alone, nearly sixty per cent of the Hazara indigenous population was either killed, enslaved, fled the country, or forced to go to elsewhere in Afghanistan (Chiovenda 2018).…”

Section: Mass Hostility In Afghanistanmentioning

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Afghanistan in the Trap of an Ethnic Security Dilemma: Is There Any Solution on the Horizon?

Hussaini¹

2023

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Afghanistan represents one of the most complex mosaics of ethnic groups in the world and its contemporary history has been characterised by ethnic hierarchy. Pashtuns domination of the country and their discriminatory policies toward non-Pashtuns have had long-term effects in destroying inter-ethnic trust. The hierarchical relationships among ethnic groups have always been an obstacle to creating ethnic harmony even in the pre-war Afghanistan. The paper, by adopting 'ethnic security dilemma theory,' seeks to analyse how and why ethnicity in Afghanistan was politicised and morphed into fault line that finally surfaced in the form of civil war in 1990s. It will discuss the impacts of internecine war on inter-ethnic relations and explores the possible options to deal with the longstanding ethnic security dilemma. Being caught in an ethnic trap, the paper argues, only a meaningful powersharing mechanism can glue the future Afghanistan together.

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Section: Mass Hostility In Afghanistanmentioning

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Afghanistan in the Trap of an Ethnic Security Dilemma: Is There Any Solution on the Horizon?

Hussaini¹

2023

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“…Ethnicity raises another challenge. The Hazaras, who constitute the largest ethnic group in the Bamiyan valley, have been suppressed since the foundation of modern Afghanistan and were especially persecuted by the Taliban (Chiovenda 2017). In numerous recent accounts of local traditional attachments to the statues, they are now the group who are singled out as having appropriated the Buddha statues into a local semi-religious traditional narrative (ibid.).…”

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“…In numerous recent accounts of local traditional attachments to the statues, they are now the group who are singled out as having appropriated the Buddha statues into a local semi-religious traditional narrative (ibid.). But in this process, very little is made of how other ethnic groups within Bamiyan Valley might have related to the statues, and how the claim of attachment becomes part of a wider claim on identity and rights of belonging (for some of this complexity see Chiovenda 2017).…”

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The Roles of the Locals - and the Possible Reconstruction of the Destroyed Buddha Statues in the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanisatan

Sørensen

2020

The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues

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Why Decenter the “War on Terror” in Histories of the “War on Terror”?

Caron

2022

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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When I first began my doctoral work on Afghanistan, and up until quite recently, I had never wanted to write about war. I began my PhD only a month before 11 September 2001, but already the field had been so overdetermined by war—by ideas of political Islam, by the political economy of violence—that I resolved to write a thesis about vital unanswered questions regarding Afghanistan's longer history. Of course I grew to regard this strategy of ignoring war as both naive and morally indefensible. For quite a while, this shaped my teaching more than my research. In my classes on Afghanistan's wars and on political Islam, for instance, we address the global structures of violence head on from a variety of directions, beginning with those that Yousef Baker outlines in his contribution to this roundtable, focusing on the generative forces in US politics amid a neoliberal global context and extending to the devastating ontological destruction that Kali Rubaii discusses in her contribution. In all of this, however, students in particular—especially at an institution like SOAS that is so directly tied to the Global South—repeatedly ask: “Where are we in this? We know that this is how global violence works, but this is surely in some way about us too. And our societies are more than what Tarak Barkawi and Shane Brighton call ‘War/Truth.’” Interlocutors in Pakistan and Afghanistan during my fieldwork there made these points even more strongly.

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Hazara Civil Society Activists and Local, National, and International Political Institutions

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Afghanistan in the Trap of an Ethnic Security Dilemma: Is There Any Solution on the Horizon?

Afghanistan in the Trap of an Ethnic Security Dilemma: Is There Any Solution on the Horizon?

The Roles of the Locals - and the Possible Reconstruction of the Destroyed Buddha Statues in the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanisatan

Why Decenter the “War on Terror” in Histories of the “War on Terror”?

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