Herat Security Dialogue

#GS-02 International Relations

Herat Security Dialogue:

The 10th Herat security dialogue with the title “Inclusive Political System, Patterns and Roadmaps” started on 27^th November 2022, at Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
Since 2012, this meeting has been held every year by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) in Herat.
This will be the first time the Herat Security Dialogue has taken place outside of Afghanistan.
It is expected that 120 representatives from regional and international bodies, including Afghanistan, will attend the conference.
Herat Security Dialogue is considered as one of the most important conferences about the security of Afghanistan and the region.
According to The Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS), the two-day conference will discuss ways to establish an inclusive government in Afghanistan.

The security dialogues in Herat are criticised as a meeting of high-level experts from the region and Afghanistan, who mostly involve theoretical plans.
It doesn’t have a practical aspect as it is mostly about getting privileges from the international community.

During the two-day meeting’s opening statements, speakers from the host country expressed alarm over the growth of terrorist organizations particularly ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Another major concern is that drug production and trafficking have also increased significantly over the past year in Afghanistan.
Some have also raised the issue of Taliban’s growing restrictions on women and girls, including the latest decrees banning women from exercising at gyms and parks.