2021
DOI: 10.3390/socsci10050150
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Violence, Terrorism, and Identity Politics in Afghanistan: The Securitisation of Higher Education

Abstract: This article investigates the securitisation of the higher education sector in Afghanistan by examining ‘hidden’ non-discursive practices as opposed to overt discursive threat construction. Non-discursive practices are framed by the habitus inherited from different social fields, whereas in Afghanistan, securitising actors converge from different habitus (e.g., institutions, professions, backgrounds) to bar the ‘other’ ethnic or social groups from resources and spaces which could empower these groups to become… Show more

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“…These papers identify different ways in which higher education can positively or negatively influence sustainable peacebuilding. We highlight three of these prominent themes here, as found in the literature: (1) the spread of messages of peace or conflict through education, (2) intergroup contact and peacebuilding, and (3) the educational reproduction of horizontal inequalities (Dryden-Peterson, 2010; Johnson, 2013; Kaunert and Sahar, 2021; Milton and Barakat, 2016).…”
Section: Higher Education Conflict and Peacebuildingmentioning
confidence: 98%
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“…These papers identify different ways in which higher education can positively or negatively influence sustainable peacebuilding. We highlight three of these prominent themes here, as found in the literature: (1) the spread of messages of peace or conflict through education, (2) intergroup contact and peacebuilding, and (3) the educational reproduction of horizontal inequalities (Dryden-Peterson, 2010; Johnson, 2013; Kaunert and Sahar, 2021; Milton and Barakat, 2016).…”
Section: Higher Education Conflict and Peacebuildingmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…(1) the spread of messages of peace or conflict through education, (2) intergroup contact and peacebuilding, and (3) the educational reproduction of horizontal inequalities (Dryden-Peterson, 2010;Johnson, 2013;Kaunert and Sahar, 2021;Milton and Barakat, 2016).…”
Section: Higher Education Conflict and Peacebuildingmentioning
confidence: 99%