Citizens and Civil Society

International Crisis Group Asia Briefing N°141, Kabul/Brussels, 26 June 2013 Afghanistan’s political parties must exercise restraint as they jostle for power in the final months of President Karzai’s mandate. For its part, the outgoing administration […]

The 15th anniversary of the establishment of Armanshahr Foundation/Open Asia was celebrated in its 100th Goftegu meeting during which the winners of the first and second Simorgh peace prize were announced.

Invitation to 88th Goftegu Public Debate: Justice and Rights: One decade of experience and planning for the future

The film had been chosen, because it portrayed methods of wiping out collective memory by burning books and controlling the public opinion on the one hand, and the people’s resistance and disobedience on the other, where the people burned among their own books but save them to defend the human experience and collective memory.

81st Goftegu Public Debate: Against Oblivion (screening of Fahrenheit 451 by Francois Truffaut)

Invitation to 78th Goftegu Public Debate: The Role of Citizens in Building a Peace of the Just

This programme is organised by Armanshahr Foundation with the financial assistance of the European Union. However it can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.

In conclusion, the participants asked the government to give top priority to the campaign against illiteracy and to make comprehensive plans for it through allocation of adequate budget.

Armanshahr Foundation, is pleased to invite you to its 59th (year IV) public Seminar GOFTEGU, a bridge between the elite and the citizens, to be held in cooperation with the Foundation for Culture and Civil […]

Armanshahr Foundation, is pleased to invite you to its 57th and 58th (year IV) public Seminar GOFTEGU, a bridge between the elite and the citizens, in Kabul and Herat. In the run-up to the parliamentary […]