Students leave school under a poster showing
pictures of landmines at Gumran Girls’ Middle
School in Afghanistan’s Logar Province.
EDUCATION AND
COMMUNITY ACTION:
AN ANTIDOTE FOR TERRORISM
BY FARID SENZAI
T
he work of Central Asia Institute
(CAI) to educate girls in some of
the most remote parts of the globe
remains vitally important, and yet is a daunting task when done in the midst of violence.
This especially is true as we witness ongoing attacks against teachers, and students
wanting nothing more than to promote and
pursue education. The attack against Malala
Yousafzai in Pakistan perhaps is the most
well-known incident in a series of ongoing
acts of violence. These attacks epitomize the
seemingly senseless carnage that so often
results from the political radicalization