Department of Social Sciences and Psychology
Civil war has brought a variety of social ills in Afghanistan, such as poverty, Health disease interethnic strife, inequality of women, and widespread thievery, kidnapping, and banditry. Children have been the primary victims of more than two decades of conflict. Of the estimated 1.5 million people killed during this period, some 300,000 were children.
According to UNICEF child and infant mortality is high, mostly due to preventable diseases. Routine immunization coverage is low, and there is a chronic shortage of accessible health facilities in rural areas.
Afghanistan's literacy rate is very low compared to other countries. In Afghanistan, only 23.5 percent of the population above 15 years old is literate, while the rate for women is even worse at 12.6 percent. At 36 percent, Afghanistan's enrollment of girls in primary schools is low compared with 90.4 percent in Iran, 67 percent in Saudi Arabia, and 62 percent in Pakistan. However, many obstacles lie ahead, such as discrimination on the basis of sex, patriarchy, and male domination in the society; local traditions and discrimination against women's education; lack of female schools in villages; lack of proper education infrastructure; lack of personal security; and lack of female teachers, to name a few.
Mission and Vision:
- To stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.
- To plan and conduct rigorous social science research
- To disseminate the findings of this research, and
- To train future generations of social scientists.
- Our Core Values are: transparency, accountability, integrity, solidarity, courage, justice and democracy.
- To solve national security challenges through scientific excellence
- To ensure a
- world in which government; politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption.