Afghanistan: One Year On Under the Taliban Rule and its Future Trajectories

Описание: This roundtable discussion will focus on the future of Afghanistan, challenges on the growing humanitarian crisis and what must be done to address these challenges.

A year has passed since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan following the collapse of the previous Afghan government on August 15, 2021 and the withdrawal of US and NATO forces. A year that brought Afghanistan to the forefront of significant global concerns as well as even greater security, human rights and humanitarian challenges for millions of Afghans. As a result, numerous questions have already been raised for what’s happening in the country today and what’s in store in its future. There are numerous reports emanating from Afghanistan that indicate the gradual breakdown of the state and the nation as a whole. On the one hand, Afghanistan was unable to preserve the achievements of the previous twenty years; a year in which Afghan civilians' lives, freedom, equality, and rights were jeopardized. On the other hand, Afghanistan has progressively reemerged as a safe haven for international terrorism. Previous incidents, such as the killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Khaled Khorasani, indicate that Islamic extremist networks have returned to Afghanistan under the Taliban rule. Due to the fact that the causes of the fall of Afghanistan's previous administration have been extensively discussed over the last year, we will not delve into them in this session. Our primary inquiry from the speakers focuses on two primary questions: first, how the situation in Afghanistan has changed over the past year and second, where Afghanistan is heading to in terms of its security, development and human rights frameworks?
This panel also hopes to bring together a group of experts on Afghanistan in due course to undertake collaborative work with the Carter School as we are planning to launch an Afghanistan Peace Lab with a goal of developing several research and publication projects.

Speakers:
Alpaslan Özerdem, Dean, Carter School

Mansoor Ehsan, Scholar in Residence, Carter School

Mohammad Mirwais Balkhi, Research Scholar at Wilson Center, and Afghanistan's former Education Minister

Hogai Aryoubi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Nilofar Sakhi, Visiting Research Fellow, Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University