Jen Brick Murtazashvili

@jmurtazashvili

Founding Dir | Assoc Prof | Nonres Scholar | President | Governance, Security, Development—from the bottom-up

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Joined March 2007
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    May 17

    Coming soon w/

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    5 hours ago

    محو خشونت و تامین ثبات در افغانستان نیازمند برگشت به قرائت عارفانه ‌و عاشقانه از دین دارد. این ودیو بار دیگر‌ ذهنم را به زنده‌گی‌ عارفانه استاد حیدری وجودی معطوف داشته است. من بار‌ها این سوال را از خود میپرسم که چگونه به فضیلت زنده‌گی‌ از “غیربیگانه” این مرد میتوان‌ نایل شد؟؟؟

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    18 hours ago

    In addition to demands for European security Russia mentions Central Asia in a proposed agreement w/ the US & NATO, demanding to stop any military relations between Central Asia & NATO. Interesting to watch how Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan would react to this point.

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    11 hours ago

    Read this important thread. We need more (independent) research embedded in policymaking, and we need to be open to learning from the results.

    Very happy to see this in print and give closure to a project that took over my life for a while. Some closing thoughts that don’t quite fit in a journal article: 🧵
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  5. 7 hours ago

    Mohib and Ahmadi all getting kid glove treatment from US media. They will not subject themselves to questions from journalists from Afghanistan. They didn’t do it when they were in power. These are the journos who will ask the tough questions.

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Hope the people of Afghanistan are prepared for the “kid glove” treatment Ghani will receive when he finally speaks to the American media. So much of the establishment in DC promoted him for years. They will want to make themselves feel better.

    Thread. Here’s hoping doesn’t get the kid’s gloves when it’s his turn on the mic
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    19 hours ago

    My small entry on Ashar for online Informality Encyclopedia by UCL is available now: )

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    8 hours ago

    My paper w/ on the CCP's repression and coercive assimilation of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang has received conditional acceptance at 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦. Grateful to the editors allowing space to address this critical topic, and thinking of my friends in XJ today

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  9. 10 hours ago

    In a few short months, we moved from crisis response to welcoming friends from academic communities in Afghanistan to a new home in Pittsburgh. Grateful to our growing family and so many strangers who dropped everything to help. Thinking of so many in still in limbo.

    As we end the academic term, we share our gratitude for the enormous effort of our students, faculty, and staff at Pitt and around the world who volunteered for our Afghanistan Asylum Task force. Thinking of our friends in Afghanistan and those now scattered around the world.
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    17 hours ago

    A sentiment shared by many Afghans (re the former National Security Advisor’s naïveté, ineptitude and role in the collapse of the Afghan govt) 👇

    This was expected from a junior level 3 D animator serving as the NSA, not to understand the US political dynamics & the Afghan history. Mohib played the most pivotal role in the collapse of AFG’s Gov & the miseries of its people!
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    11 hours ago

    Happy holidays from . From . Have a great break!

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    12 hours ago

    Yup.

    As expected, the Taliban's claim that the Chinese copper mine at Mes Aynak has resumed operations is total BS. "The construction of the Aynak Copper Mine has not started yet, let alone resumed," said a staffer with one of the Chinese companies involved
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    14 hours ago

    Applications have just opened for our Congressional Fellowship. If you work on Capitol Hill and want to better understand pressing issues like Russia's threats to escalate its war on Ukraine, this is for you 👉

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  14. Dec 16

    Thank you, Professor .

    "It’s easy to think of Afghanistan as a place that’s far from us, alien and wholly different. It’s hard to think about the ways in which we have a shared legacy” said Professor Robert Crews
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  15. Dec 16

    Kyrgyzstan and the American University of Central Asia deserve enormous credit for opening their arms wide to students from Afghanistan.

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    Dec 16

    Our December Beacon is out now! Click to read: Features include: - IIE-SRF fellows from arrive to U.S. host institutions - Professor of Afghanistan commences appointment - Scholars accept post-fellowship appointments

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    Dec 16

    I keep thinking about the AER finding pausing tenure clocks for both men and women for births led to lower tenure transitions for females. Are there other studies and do they also tend to find evidence for such unintended consequences? How broadly are those findings discussed?

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    Dec 16

    Some bold statements from female protestors in Kabul today who carried placards reading "Bread, Work, Freedom, Political Participation": Mullahs' place is pulpits and governance requires expertise.

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    Dec 15

    Moving forward, the TB are yet to define their governance model? The source of legitimacy? The relationship between the state and citizenry? If they reject democracy, they have to present an alternative system. So far, it’s been an attempt to institutionalize a one-party state.

    In 2002-07 there were no Taliban, there was massive corruption, violence, injustice, civilian casualties & massive amount of human rights violations. The Taliban were given birth by those actions not in back alleys of Peshawar, but in Afghanistan.
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    Dec 15

    Afghan scholars call for applications: is hosting a fellowship cohort of displaced Afghan writers, human rights defenders, & peacebuilders looking for funding & community support. Learn more and apply here:

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    Dec 15

    No one wants to say it, but I will: WH has a messaging problem on Ukraine. Sullivan talked a big game about stopping the Nord Stream 2 pipeline if Russia invades. Then evacuation plans for US embassy in Kyiv came out. Meanwhile, Putin keeps making bigger and bigger demands.

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