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May 10, 2022

A socio-historical perspective about the Hazara community’s stance on the second Taliban regime

Since the foundation of modern Afghanistan, Hazara have been subjected to forced displacement, genocide, and even slavery at the hand of the Afghan State[1], and more recently of the Taliban and so-called Isis. In the past few months, we have witnessed the bravery and determination of Panjshir’s resistance, a region…

Afghanistan

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A socio-historical perspective about the Hazara community’s stance on the second Taliban regime
A socio-historical perspective about the Hazara community’s stance on the second Taliban regime
Afghanistan

4 min read


Jan 5, 2022

US-Taliban peace agreement: an International law perspective

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…

Afghanistan

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US-Taliban peace agreement: an International law perspective
US-Taliban peace agreement: an International law perspective
Afghanistan

7 min read


Oct 16, 2021

Hannah Arendt’s interview and the analogies between the Jewish and Hazara experience

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…

Hazara

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Hannah Arendt’s interview and the analogies between the Jewish and Hazara experience
Hannah Arendt’s interview and the analogies between the Jewish and Hazara experience
Hazara

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Aug 12, 2021

Hazara people warned of what was coming for years. Why have their warnings been dismissed?

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…

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Hazara people warned of what was coming for years. Why have their warnings been dismissed?
Hazara people warned of what was coming for years. Why have their warnings been dismissed?

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Jul 3, 2021

Xenophon, Khalilzad, and the prisoner’s dilemma, a game theory approach to the Afghan peace process

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…

Afghanistan

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Xenophon, Khalilzad, and the prisoner’s dilemma, a game theory approach to the Afghan peace process
Xenophon, Khalilzad, and the prisoner’s dilemma, a game theory approach to the Afghan peace process
Afghanistan

7 min read


Apr 3, 2021

The concept of war: a short philosophical inquiry about the nature of conflict in Afghanistan

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…

Afghanistan

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The concept of war: a short philosophical inquiry about the nature of conflict in Afghanistan
The concept of war: a short philosophical inquiry about the nature of conflict in Afghanistan
Afghanistan

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Jan 3, 2021

Nation, identity and the future of Afghanistan

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…

Afghanistan

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Nation, identity and the future of Afghanistan
Nation, identity and the future of Afghanistan
Afghanistan

4 min read


Aug 13, 2019

Pushing back

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…

Feminism

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Pushing back
Pushing back
Feminism

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