With the closing of the US-Taliban deal and the climate of uncertainty around it, it may be helpful to resort to international law in order to understand where these talks could lead Afghanistan and what’s their legal position in the light of the law of nations. What’s the Taliban’s status…

On September 16, 1964, the philosopher Hannah Arendt sat for a one-hour-long interview on German TV with the journalist Günther Gaus. The topics addressed by Arendt and Gaus, included personal memories, the Holocaust, philosophy, identity, Jewishness, and the experience of migration. Even if for historical and cultural reasons it’s hard…

Years ago an acute observer said that Hazaras are like canaries in a coal mine. For years they warned the country and the world of greater dangers to come. The brutality experienced today all over the country has been experienced by Hazara people for a very long time. Their children…

Game theory can be described as the mathematical study of conflict and strategy among rational players. This interesting discipline has often been used by analysts and researchers to analyze some of the biggest international conflicts and it might still be useful today to provide a different point of view on…

The Afghan conflict has been defined as a complex and multi-layered conflict. This conflict is particularly hard to understand because of the several actors involved and the different situations experienced by people on the ground. The experience of a man in Kabul, for example, will be different from the experience…

Nation, identity, and the future of Afghanistan In 2018 a multimillion-dollar plan to issue new electronic ID cards sparked a heated debate among some sectors of the population, who objected to the use of the term “Afghan” as a common nationality. Some people, in fact, argued that historically this term…

From North to South, from West to East women have been targeted for centuries just for being women. And so have I. When we post a photo we are prostitutes, when we hold an important position it’s because we have slept with someone, when we don’t have children we are…