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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
Subjects:
Education > Afghanistan
Schools > Afghanistan
Education and state > Afghanistan
Nation-building > Afghanistan
Economic assistance, American > Afghanistan
Humanitarian assistance, American > Afghanistan
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Table of Contents:
  • Time line : education in modern Afghan history
  • Humanitarian action and the neglect of education
  • Jihad literacy
  • Education for stability
  • Education for the world
  • Conclusion: Education as hope

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