Mohammad Irfani

Mohammad Irfani joined the Knowledge in Transition department at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media | Georg Eckert Institute in June 2022. He works under the project entitled “Writing the nation in Afghanistan. A comparison of school textbooks for history and patriotism (2001-2021).

After earning his BA degree in Sociology at Avicenna University in Kabul, he started working as researcher at Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies. He completed a master's degree in IR - Security and Politics at OSCE academy. In 2020 he joined the the Institute of War and Peace studies. He has previously worked with various local and international media organisations.

Publications

• Social Media and Articulation of Radical Narratives in Afghanistan, AISS, 2015 – aiss.af/aiss/publication_list/policypapers/4
• Afghanistan’s Constitution and the Society in Transition, AISS, 2016 – aiss.af/aiss/publication_list/policypapers/4
• The Challenging Path towards Democracy in Afghanistan: An Assessment and Critique of National Debates on Alternative Political Systems in Afghanistan, AISS, 2017 – aiss.af/aiss/publication_list/policypapers/4
• Electoral Reform and the Experience of Parliamentary Elections in Afghanistan, AISS, 2018 – in collaboration with – aiss.af/aiss/publication_list/policypapers/3
• The Second & Third Afghan People’s Peace Perception Survey/s, IWPS, 2020 – iwps.org.af
• How to Integrate Taliban Combatants and Their Families Within Military and Civilian Life? IWPS, 2021 – iwps.org.af
• Security Sector Reform for Peace; A Roadmap to Economization, Fiscal Sustainability and Restructuring of the Afghan Security Forces Post Peace Settlement- IWPS, 2021 – iwps.org.af