Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan
Narrative offers an evocative opportunity to understand the power of knowledge manipulation within the public policy system. Despite the influence of narratives in designing, formulating, and implementing of public policies, it is a relatively nascent concept in public policy studies.The war in Afghanistan truly represents a battle of narratives. This paper takes a Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) approach to explore the narratives used by resistance forces in Afghanistan within the belief system of a religion. It acknowledges that narratives matter and that by studying the same, one can construe their influence on policies. The paper finds that resistance groups such as the Taliban, mobilize support and operate in battlefields across Afghanistan; simultaneously bolstering their legitimacy and community influence garnering support from within and outside Afghanistan.
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Resistance Policy, Narrative Policy Framework, Taliban, Afghanistan
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(1) Tahir Ul Mulk Kahlon
Assistant Professor,Department of Government and Public Policy, Faculty of Contemporary Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Ghulam Qumber
Deputy Director ISSRA, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
(3) Rafaqat Islam
Faculty of Institute for Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis (ISSRA), National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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APA : Kahlon, T. U. M., Qumber, G., & Islam, R. (2018). Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan. Global Regional Review, III(I), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2018(III-I).02
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CHICAGO : Kahlon, Tahir Ul Mulk, Ghulam Qumber, and Rafaqat Islam. 2018. "Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan." Global Regional Review, III (I): 17-31 doi: 10.31703/grr.2018(III-I).02
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HARVARD : KAHLON, T. U. M., QUMBER, G. & ISLAM, R. 2018. Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan. Global Regional Review, III, 17-31.
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MHRA : Kahlon, Tahir Ul Mulk, Ghulam Qumber, and Rafaqat Islam. 2018. "Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan." Global Regional Review, III: 17-31
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OXFORD : Kahlon, Tahir Ul Mulk, Qumber, Ghulam, and Islam, Rafaqat (2018), "Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan", Global Regional Review, III (I), 17-31
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TURABIAN : Kahlon, Tahir Ul Mulk, Ghulam Qumber, and Rafaqat Islam. "Crafting Resistance through Narratives in Afghanistan." Global Regional Review III, no. I (2018): 17-31. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2018(III-I).02