THE ROLE OF ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION IN AFGHANISTAN’S CIVIL WAR

Abstract

Afghanistan is a country with ethnic diversity like other hundred countries in the world. By abusing this diversity, ethnic discrimination has been one of the effective factors of civil war in Afghanistan. The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between ethnicity and continues civil war in Afghanistan. Ethnicity as an issue has been faced by all multi-ethnic societies. But it is a matter of great apprehensions and graver outcomes in those societies which are going through post-conflict reconstruction, like Afghanistan is today. This paper attempts to analyze the fact how social and political objectives of ethnic groups are liable to be accommodated in the new structure of Afghan State. It will also argue about the composition of ethnic groups, impact of war on ethnic communities, and why the ethnic fault lines may continue and under what circumstances, they fade away?