In line with the project ” Civil Society Cohesion Building on Afghan Peace Process ” Mediothek Afghanistan successfully organized a two-day workshop in Baghlan province. Two-day workshop ” Civil Society Cohesion Building on Afghan Peace Process ” the trainers continued their work according to the pre-planned agenda after registering the participants, welcoming and presenting them the workshop protocol, pre-training assessment, and describing the objectives of the program.
The participants believed that all the problems and challenges were rooted in the lack of peace and the continuation of the war. To address these issues, the participants were asked, “What are the main causes and roots of the war in Afghanistan?”.
Based on their perceptions of the objective realities of Afghanistan, the participants identified and isolated the causes and roots of the war and its aftermath in an open space and in group work. The participants pointed out that insecurity, widespread corruption in government institutions, poor governance, violence against women, patriarchy, ethnic prejudices, lack of mutual acceptance, armed opposition, lack of national unity, the monopoly of political power, widespread poverty, drugs, the existence of addicts, was partly due to the war’s causes and partly due to the war’s consequences. Here, too, the views of the participants were different, who, after discussions in the working group, realized that the two main factors of the war and instability were:
• The existence of ethnic prejudices
• Political deprivation
After the discussions of the participants, it became clear that peace will not be possible until the main roots of the war in Afghanistan are properly identified and everyone agrees on it, and work is not done to eradicate it together.
