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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

An Imperial Security Council? Implementing Security Council Resolutions 1373 and 1390 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The UN Security Council has taken important steps against terrorism since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Some of those steps build on previous Security Council counterterrorism efforts; others represent significant innovations.
Stromseth, Jane E.
core   +1 more source

Afghan women's experiences during the Taliban regime

open access: yes, 2009
A plethora of research has depicted Afghan women during the Taliban reign in a variety of ways, ranging from oppressed “victims of the burqa” to heroic “social actors.” In this study, I examined the lived experiences of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime, as articulated by ordinary women themselves.
openaire   +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

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.
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Improving child mental health and learning outcomes and reducing stigma and discrimination in conflict setting: findings from a cluster randomized controlled trial of a classroom‐based psychosocial intervention in rural primary schools in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Conflict and crises have long‐lasting and dramatic consequences on the mental health of children. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a psychosocial intervention on child mental health in Afghanistan. Methods A two‐arm cluster‐randomized controlled trial was conducted in 83 rural primary schools within three provinces of Afghanistan.
Jean‐Francois Trani   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The view on the Situation in Afghanistan in the Chinese Media within China’s National Security

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Political Science
The withdrawal of US troops and the rapid takeover of Kabul by the Taliban (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation) in Afghanistan in 2021 shocked the world community.
Anastasia D. Dolokhova   +1 more
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

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
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
wiley   +1 more source

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