ABSTRACT

This article presents an original dataset collected in predominantly rural, Eastern Afghanistan, which finds that girls’ access to education and women’s professional and economic opportunities are key to understanding the experience of peace. In other words, many Afghan men and women in the areas studied not only want to see girls go to school and women sell goods at the market or treat patients in the hospital, but believe this to be fundamental to their understanding of peace in their communities. We seek to investigate this relationship, arguing that much of the donor-assisted programming in Afghanistan is based on a flawed and fragmentary understanding of gendered power relations and priorities, to the detriment of the goals of both peace and women’s rights.

摘要

本文介绍了主要在阿富汗东部农村地区收集的原始数据集，该数据集发现女孩接受教育以及妇女的职业和经济机会是理解和平经历的关键。换言之，所研究地区的许多阿富汗男女不仅希望看到女孩上学，看到妇女在市场上出售商品或在医院治疗病人，而且认为这是他们理解社区和平的基础. 我们寻求调查这种关系，认为阿富汗的大部分捐助者援助计划都是基于对性别权力关系和优先事项的有缺陷和片面的理解，这损害了和平与妇女权利的目标。