"Critical questions need to be asked about which secrets are kept and why (...)The Gov invests in secrecy when it also has its own embarrassment to hide (...) while Afghans are left wondering why their data could be emailed around with a click on the wrong button"
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Afghan data leak: how selective state secrecy and cover-ups can harm civilians Critical questions need to be asked about which secrets are kept, by whom and why.

@sara-de-jong.bsky.social has co-written an article in The Conversation about the Afghan data leak, you can read the article in full here: theconversation.com/afghan-data-...

Routledge Handbook of Masculinities, Conflict, and Peacebuilding | Hen This handbook engages with and broadens current debates on men and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding. Through an expansive range of chapters across a

Publication Alert: chapter with Sayed Jalal Shajjan, "Invisible Men: The injured lives of Afghan Interpreters". Much needed attention to challenges faced by wounded Afghan interpreters
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we got our blue passports back though!

Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis Crisis scholarship has so far remained inattentive to the uneven entanglements and encounters that operate in what are designated as times or spaces of crisis, such as conflict and war. Indeed, sch...

A new article by Sara de Jong "Brokering war: Afghan interpreters, western soldiers and unequal encounters in crisis" is based on 65 interviews with Afghan interpreters & Western Afghanistan veterans.
Read the full #openaccess article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Vrijwilligers die opkomen voor Afghaanse bondgenoten: ‘Den Haag is nog niet van ons af’ ‘Nederland heeft een ereschuld aan Afghanen die hun leven in de waagschaal stelden voor onze diplomaten en militairen. Los van de politieke kleur van een kabinet: die schuld moet worden ingelost.’ Ann...

Nederlandse vrijwilligers zetten zich al jaren in om bondgenoten uit Afghanistan te evacueren, maar het kabinet-Schoof komt eerdere toezeggingen niet na. FTM spreekt met Anne-Marie Snels en Sara de Jong over hun felle kritiek op deze beslissing. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/an...