Reconciliation and Social Healing in Afghanistan
Subtitle: A Transrational and Elicitive Analysis Towards Transformation
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jan 13, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783658169305
Description: Heela Najibullah analyzes the Afghan reconciliation processes through the lenses of transrational peace philosophy and Elicitive Conflict Transformation. The research highlights two Afghan governments reconciliation processes in 1986 and 2010 and underlines the political events that shaped the 1986 National Reconciliation Policy, drawing lessons for future processes. The author points out the historical and geopolitical patterns indicating regional and global stakeholders involvement in Afghan politics. Social healing through a middle-out approach is the missing and yet crucial component to achieve sustainable reconciliation in Afghanistan. Contents Contextualization of Afghan Politics Analysis of Reconciliation through the Pyramid of Peace Actors National Reconciliation: 1986--1992 Afghan Peace and Reintegration Program Social Healing: The Missing Component Geneva Accords 1988 and UN Five Point Peace Plan For Afghanistan Target Group Lecturers and students of political science, especially in the field of peacebuilding, reconciliation and conflict transformation Practitioners and researchers in the field of Elicitive Conflict Transformation, Asian studies, Afghan diaspora, policy makers, historians, UN Analysts The Author Heela Najibullah is a peace researcher from the MA program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck, a humanitarian worker in the field of forced migration who intends to start her PhD project soon.
Notes: Source title: Reconciliation and Social Healing in Afghanistan: A Transrational and Elicitive Analysis Towards Transformation (Masters of Peace)