Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Expert Voices

AAN Expert Voices showcases high-quality research and expert analysis on Afghanistan by non-AAN researchers and specialists, offering a platform for fresh perspectives and new ideas. The views expressed here are the authors’, not AAN’s.

A Parallel Education System: The Taliban’s madrasa expansion and its implications for gender, society and regional security

Timor Sharan •

In June 2026, HAMRAH Network published Taliban Madrasas: Ideological Consolidation, Gender Persecution and Afghanistan’s Future Stability, which documented the scale of the Taliban’s madrasa expansion. Drawing on ground-level fieldwork conducted in Kandahar and Bamyan provinces between March and May 2026 and interviews with more than 34 individuals with direct knowledge of the education sector, the report […]

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Are there lessons from Syria for Afghanistan’s new International Accountability Mechanism?

Vincent Ploton •

Today, we launch a new type of publication, an Expert Opinion, a short piece of analysis filed by someone from a particular academic discipline or with relevant experience who wants to respond to an AAN report. Our first expert, Vincent Ploton, here responds to a report by Ehsan Qaane on the new Independent Investigative Mechanism […]

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