Omar Sadr talks to Dr Dipali Mukhopadhyay about the Taliban's model of governance, their perception of the state, and their ideology.  Dipali Mukhopadhyay is an associate professor in the global policy area at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Her research focuses on the relationships between political violence, state building, and governance during and after war. She is currently serving as senior expert on the Afghanistan peace process for the U.S. Institute of Peace. She is the...

Omar Sadr speaks with Professor William Maley about totalitarianism, the Taliban, and the design of the 2018 peace negotiations of Afghanistan. Emeritus Professor William Maley served as Professor of Diplomacy at the ANU from 2003-2021, and was Foundation Director of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy from 1 July 2003 to 31 December 2014. Suggested readings Why Now? — The Afghanistan-Ukraine Nexus (Australian Institute of International Affairs) The collapse in Afghanistan has...

Speaking with Dr Jennifer Murtazashvili of the University of Pittsburgh about pluralism and liberalism in Afghanistan. 

Negotiating Ideas Podcast Hello and welcome to Negotiating Ideas a Podcast about liberty, democracy, and pluralism in Afghanistan. I am your host, Omar Sadr, presenting the initial introductory episode. … I am a scholar in exile, forced to flee my homeland overnight due to the Taliban’s brutality. In this podcast, as in my research, I explore how totalitarianism threatens democracies and the ways in which societies reinstitute freedom, democracy, and pluralism. Unlike the rise of...