Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan

Dana Burde

Dana Burde

Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan

Columbia University Press | 2014

https://doi.org/10.7312/burd16928

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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 anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programs. She also reveals how dominant humanitarian models have limited attention toward education, in some cases fueling programs that undermine their goals. Burde argues we must expand equal access to education and support programs that increase girls' and boys' attendance at school.

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 through misguided stabilization programs

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Dana Burde is an assistant professor of international education at New York University's Steinhardt School and holds affiliations with the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, NYU Abu Dhabi, and the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. Her research examines the effects of war on education and how to mitigate these effects; the relationship between education and political violence; and transnational advocacy and humanitarian action.

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[Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan] provides an excellent overview and diverse analysis of the historical emergence of, and currently existing relationship between, education, peace and conflict within and beyond Afghanistan.

Mujtaba Hedayet:
Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan lays out a detailed history of education in the Afghan context, its importance, and how educational funds can be effectively used to avoid conflict.... This book is a welcome contribution to the field of both international and comparative education as well as conflict studies.

Paul Clemans:
Dana Burde provides rare insights into the potential for Afghanistan's educational system to advance either political violence or peace.... [Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan] could serve as a foundational text for those who want to understand the issues surrounding education and conflict.

Jack Snyder, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Department of Political Science, Columbia University:
Public education in conflict-ridden societies should be a force for peace and stability, if done well. But Dana Burde shows that international aid to education in Afghanistan sowed conflict when its political goals prioritized jihad against the Soviet occupation or favored some ethnic groups over others. Impeccably researched, this book has global implications for thinking about politics, education policy, and foreign aid.

Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:
This masterly book offers the first comprehensive fieldwork-based research on education in contemporary Afghanistan. Dana Burde makes the convincing case that NGOs have generally been neglecting education and that jihadist programs in the 1980s implied a huge exposure of children to the message of violence and intolerance. Post-2001, Burde points to the general failure of the counterinsurgency strategy to provide adequate support to education.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	ix
Time Line. Education in Modern Afghan History Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xiii
1. Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
2. Humanitarian Action and the Neglect of Education Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	25
3. Jihad Literacy Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	55
4. Education for Stability Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	89
5. Education for the World Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	125
6. Conclusion. Education as Hope Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	154
Notes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	171
References Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	183
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	201

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