Twelve months after their takeover, Afghanistan’s rulers have slammed the door on educational opportunities and leadership roles for girls and women. But is isolating the country the right response?
Volunteers continue to educate teenage girls in informal schools such as this one. But unless the ban on secondary school for girls is lifted, universities will eventually become male-only zones., between 1996 and 2001. Back then, all girls’ schools in the country were closed, and women couldn’t work, or have any role in public life. Rape and violence were commonplace.
For now, girls’ primary schools are still open, and some women are working. The blanket ban has not yet returned, in part because today’s Afghanistan is not the country of 2001. An explosion in knowledge, technology and job opportunities in the intervening years nurtured a. They are now in an existential fight to stop their country going back in time. They, especially the girls and women among them, need the world’s full support — in cash, in other resources, in whatever way possible.
These developments have left governments and scientific collaborators grappling with what kind of relationship they want with the Taliban leadership. Some countries, including China, India, Iran and Pakistan, host students and researchers of all genders from Afghanistan at their universities. China is also providing funding for Afghanistan’s higher education, partly through its Belt and Road Initiative.
Why has isolating the Taliban not changed their behaviour? What differences of opinion exist between various factions of the Taliban, and why? Has cutting off funding also severed links to those in the group who might be advocating a different and relatively open-minded agenda? Answers to these and other questions must be sought through systematic evaluation and assessment.
Realistically, the Taliban might be in power for some time. Those researchers who have chosen to stay in Afghanistan know this, and are bravely engaging with the leadership, aiming to demonstrate that equal rights, research, scholarship and dissent are valuable in nation-building., it is high-risk work. It will take time, and it needs global support. That support can’t come if Afghanistan is isolated by the international community, as it was in 1996.
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