DIIS REPORT 2013:06 DIIS REPORT DIIS REPORT TALIBAN TALKS PAST‚ PRESENT AND PROSPECTS FOR THE US‚ AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN Edited by Mona K. Sheikh & Maja T. J. Greenwood DIIS REPORT 2013:06 DIIS . DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 1 DIIS REPORT 2013:06 © Copenhagen 2013‚ the author and DIIS Danish Institute for International Studies‚ DIIS Strandgade 56‚ DK-1401 Copenhagen‚ Denmark Ph: +45 32 69 87 87 Fax: +45 32 69 87 00 E-mail: diis@diis.dk Web: www.diis.dk
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History Final Research: Taliban Packet: While the civil war was in Afghanistan‚ the Taliban was grouping in Pakistan. They were small religious schools for orphans and refugee children. With the influence from Mullah Omar‚ the schools got bigger until they were a political force. The Taliban started to take control of Afghanistan. September 1996‚ they came to power and renamed it to Islamic Ermiate of Afghanistan. At first the people liked the Taliban‚ they told them that they
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Taliban By Ahmed Rashid Ahmed Rashid’s Taliban was the best book on the history and ideology of the Taliban when it was first published in 2000. It still is. In three sections that read easily and fluidly‚ Rashid oulines the ideological and historical origins of the Taliban‚ the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam‚ and the Taliban and Afghanistan’s place in "the new great game‚" a competition between regional and western powers for that region of the world. Fanaticism Resurgent In 2000‚ the Taliban was
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Global Terrorism GVPT 406 Term Paper The Taliban Patrick Arihi The US Department of State has never labelled or listed the Taliban in its foreign terrorist Organization list. In this paper‚ I will show that the Taliban is a terrorist organization and need to be labelled as such by the US Department of State. The US Federal Bureau of Investigations has defined international terrorism as follows: “Involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human
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Children of the Taliban 1. The government school system has completely collapsed. The lack of funding and cohesiveness amongst educators and government has caused the system to literally crumble. School buildings are also in war zones and a lot of them are structurally unsafe at this point. They have been replaced by schools of the Taliban. The Taliban actually offer guaranteed food and shelter to the children who attend their schools. Parents will even receive a monthly stipend. While madrassas
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once a place of relative peace. A place where one could do as they please and have the freedoms to be who they wanted to be. But a few years would change that all. Everything that the citizens of Afghanistan knew‚ their entire way of life would change. The cause? The Taliban. The Taliban are an extremist Muslim group from Afghanistan. The Taliban‚ who call themselves Jihad or “freedom fighters” are the most brutal extremist Muslims in the world. To understand the Taliban you must understand how they
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bringers of hope to a hopeless society‚ but soon after brought oppression and fear to all. The Taliban‚ or “students‚” were only brought to the attention of most westerners after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. However‚ they have a much deeper history rooted as far back as the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of the region. In order to comprehend the rise‚ fall and re-emergence of the Taliban‚ three men must be mentioned: Mohammad Omar‚ Ahmad Shah Massoud‚ and the most famous terrorist
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Besides that‚ showing the true identity of those behind hijabs‚ burkas‚ and niqabs doesn’t seem like it’ll be soon under the Taliban’s control. Firstly‚ typical women from the 1980s to 2000s are treated with greater unjustness ever since the Taliban took control over Afghanistan. Most of their rights were rather confiscated until further notice. The beauty and creativity of work were taken away so women were essentially detained in their own home. In the life of a woman‚ especially in Kabul‚
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[BACKGROUND INFO & TOPIC SENTENCE] “The Taliban claimed to follow a pure‚ fundamentalist Islamic ideology‚ yet the oppression they perpetrated against women had no basis in Islam. Within Islam‚ women are allowed to earn and control their money and to participate in public life. The 55-member Organization of Islamic Conference refused to recognize the Taliban as Afghanistan’s official government. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt‚ regarded by many as an ultraconservative organization‚ denounced the
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Liberalism: According to liberalism prospective the Taliban came to power to bring law and order. After soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan there was a situation of chaos and there was no stable situation in Afghanistan. According to realism prospective Taliban came to power by the name of bringing order‚ norm‚ law and stability in Afghanistan. They have been used this as mean to bring trust among normal people. US‚ NATO and other larger international coalition has mandate to construct Afghanistan
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