Afghanistan - The Battered Land

The war in Afghanistan is one of the longest-running wars. However, with the Taliban taking complete control of Afghanistan, we still hope that the country housing over 30 million people can stabilize itself. For this purpose, it is essential to discuss the complexity of the Afghan war and what can be the way forward. Therefore, intending to mitigate the suffering of Afghan people and bring peace, this book examines the intricacy of the Afghan war while discussing the history of war, factors shaping the war strategy, what went wrong, and the current situation in Afghanistan.

Afghan people had suffered due to the long-standing conflict in Afghanistan, and they are still suffering. The future peacebuilding, good governance, and sustainable development in Afghanistan depend on its human capital. The world cannot abandon these people now. Afghan people took the toll to fight terrorism, and this is when they shall get support from the international community.

"Afghanistan - The Battered Land" appeals to the international community, governments, and the United Nations to ensure sustainable peace in Afghanistan while discussing some possibilities.

Sadaf Taimur is currently (2022) a Doctoral Scholar at The University of Tokyo, Japan, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow. Her research is on transformative learning approach for individual and organizational transformations towards sustainability. She is also a Salzburg Global Fellow at Salzburg Global Seminar for Asia-Pacific Peace Innovators Program.

She has 6+ years of experience in education and development sector. she: (a) managed Communications, Advocacy & Youth Mobilization at Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA)-Centre of Education & Consciousness; (b) worked as an Advisory Mentor for Queen`s Young Leaders Program (UK); & (c) is working as a Chairperson at Youth General Assembly (a social movement, to train & mobilize youth to work on UN`s Sustainable Development Agenda, which she co- founded).

As G20 Global Changer, she was involved in proposing recommendations, on education & sustainable development, for G20 leaders which were presented at G20 Summit, 2017 (Germany). She won GESS (Global Education Supplies & Solutions) Outstanding Contribution in Education Award, 2016 (Dubai).She represented Pakistan: as Youth Delegate UNESCO-MGIEP at "UNESCO week for peace & sustainable development: role of education" (Canada) and as Youth Champion at Rise Up`s Youth Champions Initiative Incubator(U.S.A.). For UNLEASH, Denmark, she was involved as a talent and later on she worked as a facilitator for UNLEASH. Sadaf got Green Talents award 2020, from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.