OVERVIEW This webinar will launch the Feinstein International Center's new report, a first-of-its-kind analysis measuring Taliban governance against CEDAW's Articles. OBJECTIVES Present the core findings and analytical framework of the report Facilitate expert...
Legal Commitments, Systemic Violations: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Taliban and CEDAW Obligations in Afghanistan (2021–2025)
This report systematically examines Taliban laws, policies, and practices against CEDAW’s first 16 Articles.
Solving big problems, globally: one alum’s journey from Afghanistan to Oxfam
Ahmad Shakeb spent nearly a decade working with major humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan, including the World Food Programme, USAID, and international NGOs. Despite this strong practical background, he sought deeper theoretical grounding, broader international...
Dyan Mazurana and Fletcher Network help Evacuate Alumni from Afghanistan
As the Taliban overthrew the Afghan government in August 2021, a small Fletcher School team mobilized a network of Tufts alumni and faculty to help evacuate Afghan alumni and their families who faced imminent peril. Dyan Mazurana was an instrumental member of this...
Dyan Mazurana quoted in Boston Globe editorial on Afghanistan
On April 18, 2022, the Boston Globe editorial "The world must help the girls of Afghanistan" described how the Taliban is restricting education for girls and women and looked at the levers that the West can pull to try to change this course. The article notes that...
Jalalabad, Afghanistan: A Case Report of Refugees in Towns
This case report explores the challenges faced by Afghan refugees who had been living in Pakistan and returned to Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. It explores the returnees’ experience of reintegration back into their home country and focuses on their access to...
Afghanistan: Humanitarianism in Uncertain Times
The Afghan crisis, now well into its fourth decade, has many layers. The military and political dimensions of the crisis grab the headlines. But the structural violence and poor governance that underpin it—grinding poverty, rampant abuse of power, criminalized...
Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Afghanistan
This paper by Paul Fishstein and Andrew Wilder presents findings from research conducted by FIC in five provinces of Afghanistan between July 2008 and January 2010 on the relationship between aid projects and security. Afghanistan has been a testing ground for a key...
Winning Hearts and Minds?: Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province
Afghanistan has been a testing ground for a key aspect of counterinsurgency doctrine, namely that humanitarian and development projects can help to bring or maintain security in strategically important environments, and by “winning hearts and minds” undermine support...
Winning Hearts and Minds?: Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Afghanistan’s Faryab Province
Afghanistan has been a testing ground for a key aspect of counterinsurgency doctrine, namely that humanitarian and development projects can help to bring or maintain security in strategically important environments, and by “winning hearts and minds” undermine support...
