Dear reader,
I read an interesting paper about the importance of education in Afghanistan’s reconstruction. I thought I should share it. It is pretty long. It comes in many posts.
In the past half-century alone, Afghanistan has seen the collapse of its monarchy, the installation of a Soviet secular state, a successful Mujahideen insurgency to overthrow the Communist government, debilitating factionalization of Mujahideen clans, the precipitous rise and collapse of the Taliban government, and the installation of Hamid Karzai’s fledgling government in the wake of the post-9/11 US intervention. After five tumultuous decades, Afghanistan’s human capital has been thoroughly and repeatedly decimated.
