Desecuritisation, deradicalisation, and national identity in Afghanistan: Higher education and desecuritisation processes

IF 2.5 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Arif Sahar, C. Kaunert
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Abstract

Abstract This article assesses the processes and trends of desecuritisation through the deradicalisation of identity politics within the higher education sector in Afghanistan. It examines the desecuritisation of radicalisation through efforts directed at deradicalisation in the context of a securitised conflict environment. The article draws on the data generated through interviews and discussions with actors engaged with higher education. Higher education, while manipulated by numerous actors for ideo-political purposes, can function as a ‘desecuritisation’ and ‘deradicalisation’ mechanism by supplementing the statebuilding efforts, and more subtly, by providing a venue for critical teaching and learning processes. This article highlights that while the sector is typically a very low reconstruction priority, if addressed strategically, it has the potential to contribute to the desecuritisation of ethnic politics through the deradicalisation of ethnic grievances and hence function as a catalyst for effective and sustainable postwar recovery.
阿富汗的去安全化、去极端化和民族认同:高等教育和去安全化进程
摘要本文通过阿富汗高等教育部门身份政治的去极端化,评估了去安全化的过程和趋势。它通过在证券化冲突环境中致力于去极端化,来研究激进化的去安全化。这篇文章引用了通过采访和与从事高等教育的行为者讨论产生的数据。高等教育虽然被许多行为者出于意识形态和政治目的操纵,但可以通过补充国家建设努力,发挥“去安全化”和“去极端化”机制的作用,更微妙的是,通过为关键的教学和学习过程提供场所。这篇文章强调,虽然该部门通常是一个非常低的重建优先事项,但如果从战略上加以解决,它有可能通过消除种族不满来促进种族政治的去安全化,从而成为战后有效和可持续复苏的催化剂。
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