Adam Baczko: "The Taliban Could End Forty-Three Years of Civil War in Afghanistan"

Adam Baczko is a CNRS researcher, Ceri Science Po, and author of

La Guerre par le droit.

The Taliban courts in Afghanistan

(CNRS Éditions, 384p, 25 €)

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LE FIGARO.

- Do you believe in the first pledges given by the Taliban to the international community?

Adam BACZKO.

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On some points the Taliban have a certain credibility - to restore order, to come to terms with a few minorities, to re-establish some form of administration.

They've been talking about this for years.

Which does not mean that they will get there, because they face immense challenges.

They are ready to make compromises in order to gain access to central bank funds from the international community.

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On the condition of women, we must take the Taliban at their word and watch what they are doing.

They have been talking about gender equality for fifteen years, which shows their evolution since the 1990s. They understood that the sustainability of a Taliban regime was linked to this question.

But their practices over the last 20

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