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War Crimes Committed with Impunity in Afghanistan
April 07,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
Warring parties and foreign forces have been engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan as a large number of civilians, including women and children, have been wounded and killed ...
Unleashing the Climate Market
April 07,2021 | Nancy Birdsall and Brian Webster
Progress against climate change has long crept at a snail’s pace, and the costs of inaction are increasingly clear to see. Hardly a week goes by without a natural disaster ...
Rising violence on the eve of the Turkey Peace Conference
April 06,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
On the eve of peace Conference in Turkey, once again the war and violence have intensified across the country. In recent days, both the government forces and the Taliban ...
A Decarbonization Roadmap
April 06,2021 | Katherine Dixon
Our climate challenge is an energy challenge. But solving our energy challenge requires action that goes well beyond power generation.
Solar and wind have revolutionized our ...
Do We Need to Modify the System or Destroy it?
April 05,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
On the eve of Istanbul Summit, the debate over the destiny of the current political system has become a hot topic in Afghanistan. The national and international actors are...
Ensuring a Stronger and Fairer Global Recovery
April 05,2021 | Mohamed A. El-Erian
An old joke about tricky trade-offs asks you to imagine your worst enemy driving over a cliff in your brand-new car. Would you be happy about the demise of your enemy or ...
Opportunities and Challenges of Peace Talks
April 04,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
The continued violence during the last year up until now has forced the United States to reconsider the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan. The intensify of violence ...
Food, Not Steel, Is Our Biggest Climate Challenge
April 03,2021 | Adair Turner
Climate-policy discussions often focus on who will pay the cost of achieving a zero-carbon economy, with a particular focus on industrial sectors such as steel and cement...
Are We Ready for Positive Peace In Afghanistan?
April 03,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
We usually define peace in negative sense but what is more discussed in today’s world is positive sense of peace. In positive sense, it does not only signify being free from ...
The New Measure of Corporate Success
March 31,2021 | Michel Fredeau and Jules Kortenhorst
For decades, global leaders have failed to respond to climate change with appropriate urgency, even though the science has long been clear. Now, the problem has become so ...
The Growing Challenge of Poverty in Afghanistan
March 31,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Afghanistan already was one the poorest countries in the world as a result of forty years of war, but the level of poverty has intensified with the intensification of violence ...
Building a Democratic High-Tech Alliance
March 30,2021 | Anders Fogh Rasmussen
One of the existential challenges facing the free world today is its disunity over emerging technologies. Divergence between the United States and the European Union in this ...
Ethnocentric Approach Highly Harmful and Destructive
March 30,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
We often talk about Pakistani drivers driving “on the wrong side” of the road. Why not just say ...
Turkey Summit: Will It Broker a Ceasefire?
March 29,2021 | Sakhi Rezaie
Turkey summit is scheduled to be held in April in Istanbul. The summit will be held based on the suggestion of Afghan officials, the Taliban and the US...
Europe’s Digital Fix Is Already Broken
March 29,2021 | Steven Hill
Since the start of this year, the European Union’s cautious approach to digital-platform reform has been overtaken by tech-industry scandals. Between temporarily banning all ...
Why Amendments to Constitution Must Be According to its Framework
March 28,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
All in all, the peace process is thorny with many ifs and buts. The Taliban are likely to put amendment to the Constitution at the table in the latest round of talks as they will discuss ...
An Ounce of Pandemic Prevention
March 28,2021 | Sally C. Davies, Jeremy Farrar, and Jim O’Neill
With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout gaining momentum, world leaders have a chance to focus more on the future of public health. Both domestically and through multilateral organizations ...
The beginning of school year and its challenges in Afghanistan
March 27,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although the new school year has formally begun with the beginning of New Year, the educational system faced so many challenges in the country. The rise of poverty, lack of qualified ...
Concerns Continue about Women’s Rights
March 27,2021 | Hujjatullah Zia
As regional and global stakeholders and the United States seek to broker the stalled intra-Afghan dialogue, the rights and freedoms of Afghan women make the international headlines ...
The Difference between Afghan Democracy and its Western Prototype
March 25,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although most third-world countries such as Afghanistan are of the claimant of having democratic system, least of them led to peace and stability. Although we live under a democratic ...
Avoiding a K-Shaped Global Recovery
March 25,2021 | Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Jayati Ghosh
The United States expects to “celebrate independence” from COVID-19 by Independence Day (July 4), when vaccines will have been made available to all adults. But for many ...
Is the Taliban ready for Peace in Afghanistan?
March 24,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
It is nearly two years that peace talks have began with the Taliban but no tangible outcome produced yet. The level of violence and target attacks has extremely tired the people ...
Humanity’s Historic Test
March 24,2021 | Carl Bildt
With “vaccine nationalism” intensifying by the day, the global effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic is at risk of faltering.
As of mid-March, the coronavirus has infected ...
The Status of Afghan Women in One Last Century
March 23,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
On the eve of new century, it is good to evaluate the present concerns and condition of women with light of past experience. Unfortunately, the political culture of Afghanistan ...
Overcoming Water Scarcity Naturally
March 23,2021 | Martha Rojas Urrego
Humanity’s consumption of fresh water has long exceeded the rate of replenishment. Now, researchers are warning that this essential natural resource is running out...
The National Day of Journalists and Challenges of Journalism in Afghanistan
March 20,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Today, it is coincided with the 27th of Hoot (17 march), the National Day of Journalists in Afghanistan. Although this day is symbolically marked in various circles with ...
How to Spend $12 Trillion
March 20,2021 | Olivia White and Anu Madgavkar
Even before the passage of the latest stimulus bill in the United States, governments around the world have offered almost $12 trillion in financial aid to businesses and ...
Core Concepts of Taliban’s Islamic Emirate has not Changed
March 17,2021 | By: Manish Rai
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which was the official name of the Taliban regime before being deposed by the United States in late 2001. The Taliban has always insisted on calling ...
Can Biden Govern?
March 17,2021 | Elizabeth Drew
The most significant thing that President Joe Biden said in his first prime-time address, on Thursday, March 11, was that in recent years, “We lost faith in whether our government ...
Who Are Responsible Against the Rising Violence in Afghanistan?
March 16,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Yesterday, once again the large cities of Afghanistan colored with the blood of Afghan civilians. Several successive explosions shocked the heart of Kabul and Heart ...
The Media-Capture Epidemic
March 16,2021 | Marius Dragomir
The Hungarian Media Council’s decision last September not to renew the broadcast license of Klubradio, the country’s last remaining opposition radio station, surprised ...
The Rule of Law and Its Challenges in Afghanistan
March 15,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
In the legal-political tradition of the west, rule of law is defined as opposed to the rule of the individual. It also defined an environment where everyone is aware of law ...
Why Trumpian Populism Failed
March 15,2021 | James A. Robinson
Although it may seem hard to believe for anyone who watched the spectacle, former US President Donald Trump’s recent second impeachment trial in the Senate suggested ...
Fears and Concerns about the Future of Minority Groups and Women in Afghanistan
March 14,2021 | Mohammad Zahir Akbari
Although there is no accurate definition about minorities in Afghanistan, there are increasingly fears and concerns about future of minority groups or marginalized groups with ...
Development of education in Afghanistan
March 14,2021 | Dr. Shabeer Khan
Afghanistan had made great efforts in improving access and number of enrolments to primary education but still, there is a long way to go as it requires a lot of efforts and support ...