Schools for Conflict Or for Peace in Afghanistan

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

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Time Line: Education in Modern Afghan History
1. Introduction
2. Humanitarian Action and the Neglect of Education
3. Jihad Literacy
4. Education for Stability
5. Education for the World
6. Conclusion: Education as Hope
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Dana Burde

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Dana Burde, Burde Dana
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780231169295
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16929-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Afghanistan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Education, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, History of Education, Asian History