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29.09.2021
Afghanistan, what happened? Perspectives from the ground and beyond
About this event
29 September 2021 from 19:30 until 21:00
In the midst of severe restrictions being placed on women and girls’ human rights, we are witnessing increasingly intensive and overlapping
This event will help to unfold recent events by looking back at likely root causes of the country’s takeover by the Taliban in August 2021, the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in place since 2001, the departure of almost all U.S. and NATO troops, and the freezing of an international aid effort that drove a large portion of the Afghan economy.
Speakers:
- Dr. Farida Momand, former member of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation (2020-2021), former Minister of Higher Education, Professor at Kabul University Faculty of Medicine
- Fahimeh Robiolle, Vice-President of Club France-Afghanistan; Lecturer at ESSEC, Kabul and Tehran Universities
- Jim Townsend, Lecturer at Sciences Po – PSIA; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security; former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO Policy
Moderator: Dr. Tina Robiolle, Academic Advisor and Lecturer, Sciences Po – PSIA
Welcome remarks: Mark Maloney, Acting Dean and Executive Director, Sciences Po – PSIA.
©Twitter/Lotfullah Najafizada – Kabul, 15 August 2021
