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Pakistan and the Future of U.S. Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A spreading Islamic insurgency engulfs the amorphous and ungoverned border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. After initial victories by the United States and the Northern Alliance in autumn 2001, hundreds of Taliban and al Qaeda fighters fled Afghanistan
Malou Innocent
core  

An Analysis of Taliban Conflict in daily Dawn during Three Regimes in Pakistan

open access: yesJournal of Peace, Development & Communication, 2023
This study analyzes news reports on the Taliban conflict published in the daily Dawn newspaper to identify the factors responsible for shifts in press narratives in an environment of diverse and conflicting voices over the period 2001-2015. The study shows different reporting patterns during the governments of the Pakistan Muslim League Quaid-i-Azam ...
null Imran ul Haq   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Obstacles to Women’s Rights to Education: The Taliban Regime and Its Policies on Women’s Education in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal of Asian Social Science Research
In Afghanistan, significant progress has been made in education, particularly after the formation of the interim government. However, challenges persist, including the gender gap in education. While strides have been made, girls' participation in schools
Mir Hussain Amiri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Breaking Barriers: Exploring Patient Satisfaction With the U.S. Healthcare System Among Iranian and Afghan Immigrants With Limited English Proficiency

open access: yesHealth Services Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore the satisfaction of limited English proficiency (LEP) Farsi‐ and Dari‐speaking patients with the U.S. healthcare system using a qualitative approach. Study Setting and Design We employed a grounded theory approach to analyze qualitative data collected from five focus groups involving 25 Farsi‐ and Dari‐speaking immigrants ...
Sara Imanpour   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women’s Rights in Post-U.S. Afghanistan: Assessing the Impact of the Taliban's Return on Gender Equality

open access: yesCappadocia Journal of Area Studies
This research explores the regression of women's rights and gender equality in Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021.
Ramez Shuja
doaj   +1 more source

With All Our Strength

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2005
Anne Brodsky’s With All Our Strength provides an ethnographic study of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). This organization was founded in 1977 by the enigmatic Meena as “the first independent feminist women’s organization ...
Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims
doaj   +1 more source

Donne e Regimi. Differenti storie e tanti tratti comuni

open access: yesNuovi autoritarismi e democrazie: diritto, istituzioni, società, 2022
The paper focuses on women’s condition in totalitarian regimes, in the light of the principles of the Italian Constitution. To this end, the paper will examine three main aspects.
Marilisa D'Amico
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding and engaging informal justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Engagement with informal justice systems in developing countries has emerged as a major policy priority for donor nations such as the Netherlands. This interest reflects practical realities.
Swenson, G.
core  

Power, costs, collective action, bargaining, and solidarity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Some argue that the more costly it would be to exercise one's power over an issue, the less power one inherently has over it. I challenge this thesis with two major objections—one conceptual, the other practical or explanatory—contending that costs influence issue‐power not inherently but contingently in specifically strategic contexts.
Arash Abizadeh
wiley   +1 more source

Culture of Revenge: Analysing Blood Revenge in Pakistan's Tribal Areas

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Revenge is a widespread phenomenon present in every culture. It is defined as a motivated retaliation against an offense or wrongdoing perceived as harmful or a violation of moral norms. Previous psychological research views revenge as an expressive action done for personal satisfaction.
Muhammad Asif   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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