SOCIO-POLITICAL AND SOCIO-ETHNIC BARRIERS TO ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN MODERN AFGHANISTAN

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a problem of studying barriers to access to education in modern Afghanistan. Based on an analytical review of the content of a number of publications on the current situation of socio-political development in Afghanistan, the author comes to the conclusion that the key obstacle to creating conditions for education for different social categories of the population in Afghanistan has been and remains to be the political factor, expressed in the instability of the political system. The author rightly names the peculiarities of the socio-ethnic structure of Afghan society, ethno-confessional relations, as well as gender inequality and gender stereotypes supported by the strength of religious and cultural traditions as other barriers to access to education. In the context of maintaining and developing cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the field of education, the author proposes several ways to overcome the identified barriers to access to education.