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The future of Afghanistan: an Afghan responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2011

Taiba Rahim
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Abstract

Bad news about Afghanistan is a daily reality. War has plagued the country for three uninterrupted decades. Afghan women and men face daunting survival struggles. The majority of them have known nothing else but war. Considerable responsibility lies on the shoulders of Afghans themselves, who have caused extensive suffering for their fellow countrywomen and men. This article, however, argues that the future of Afghanistan lies in Afghan hands. The solution to its current problems cannot and will not come from outside. It is time for Afghan men and women to confront their problems, to address their divisions, and to envisage home-grown solutions.

Type
Socio-political and Humanitarian Environment
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 92 , Issue 880: Conflict in Afghanistan I , December 2010 , pp. 993 - 1002
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2011

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References

1 See World Health Organization, ‘Country profile: Afghanistan’, available at: http://www.who.int/countries/afg/en/ (last visited 21 December 2010).

2 See United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), ‘Afghanistan’, available at: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan_statistics.html (last visited 21 December 2010).

3 Ibid.

4 See Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan, W. W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 2009.

5 The Constitution of Afghanistan, Chapter 1, Art. 4, available at: http://www.afghan-web.com/politics/current_constitution.html (last visited 21 December 2010).

6 Rahim, Taiba, ‘An identity of strength: personal thoughts on women in Afghanistan’, in International Review of the Red Cross, No. 847, September 2002, pp. 627–641CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 The Nai Qala Association, available at: http://www.nai-qala.org (last visited 31 January 2011).