Schools for conflict or for peace in Afghanistan

Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its statebuilding efforts. Dana Burde shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s throug...

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Main Author: Burde, Dana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Columbia University Press 2018
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