The West, the Taliban & the Future of Afghanistan
Wednesday | 4 December 2024 | ON-SITE
5.30pm UK
Room RB01, SOAS Main Building, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Click here to register free.
A question worth asking is: is continuing international engagement with the Taliban morally justifiable? How they can be designed to support the emergence of alternative publics inside Afghanistan.
SPEAKER
Obaidullah Baheer (@ObaidullaBaheer) is Visiting Fellow at LSE South Asia Centre, Adjunct Lecturer at American University of Afghanistan, and currently Doctorand at The New School, New York. He has published widely on transitional justice, civic engagement, democracy, and engagement with the Taliban.
DISCUSSANTS: Quhramaana Kakar (@QuhramaanaKakar) is a peace activist & development practitioner, currently Visiting Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace & Security. She is Founder & Director of Women for Peace & Participation, an organisation connecting the local to the global and the inclusion of women in decision-making about peace & security, providing platforms for communities in conflict regions and diaspora communities in UK and Europe. Quhramaana also advises policy-makers and politicians in Europe & the US on advocating for the rights of women & vulnerable communities, and on international intervention in Afghanistan; Graeme Smith (@smithkabul; via Zoom) is Senior Consultant at International Crisis Group focusing on Afghanistan, having spent extended periods in Afghanistan since 2005, including being Country Director for Afghanistan between 2012-15. He is the author of The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan (2013), and won an Emmy Award for his 'Talking to the Taliban' video series in 2009.
CO-CHAIRS: Naufel Vilcassim is Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE), and Professor of Marketing in the LSE Department of Management; Dr Subir Sinha (@PoMoGandhi) is Director, SOAS South Asia Institute (@SOAS_SAI), and Reader in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London.
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This event is in collaboration with SOAS South Asia Institute, and part of the UK-South Asia Network.
Banner image © Obaidullah Baheer, Airport Road, Kabul, June 2024.