TITLE:
The Structural Shortcomings of INEE: An Intersectional Perspective on Young Women of Afghanistan
AUTHORS:
Ahmed Alameldeen, Saba Fatima
KEYWORDS:
Education in Emergency, INEE, Afghan Women, Intersectionality, Refugees
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.10,
October
19,
2021
ABSTRACT: Given
the gender-inequality index regarding education in the backdrop of protracted
conflicts, the narrow “Education in Emergency” paradigm observed by the
Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) provides the
evidence for institutional and policy failure to understand the structural
intricacies as well as socio-political temporalities in a contextual manner (Shuayb, 2018). INEE’s drafts for the educational policies designed amidst the conflict
without a sound epistemological approach give the impression that the
definition of their progress and sustainability is reduced to mere statistical
data. The theoretical conceptualizations seem to be apolitical and don’t use a
contextual and intersectional feminist lens producing a wide longitudinal
research gap. This study intends to explore these research gaps in the policy
frame analysis of INEE through a gendered lens and contextualizes the case
study of Afghanistan. It hypothesizes that the de-politicization,
exclusiveness, repatriation, and short-term vision of INEE policies are
responsible for not achieving the desired results. A comprehensive
consideration and mapping of geopolitical and biopolitical realities of Afghan
women along with a structural understanding of socio-cultural realities,
however, might lead to the better drafting of educational policies for women
during the conflict and crisis.