{"id":44145,"date":"2022-05-03T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/03\/taliban-swap-guns-for-pens-to-learn-about-human-rights"},"modified":"2022-05-03T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T13:00:28","slug":"i-am-sure-they-will-change-taliban-swap-guns-for-pens-to-learn-about-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44145","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am sure they will change\u2019: Taliban swap guns for pens to learn about human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young men who have spent most of their lives in combat are learning how to behave with civilians as the Taliban transitions from fighting to governing<\/p>\n<p>Around a conference room table, young Taliban fighters quietly listen to an instructor teaching them how to behave with civilians.<\/p>\n<p>Awkwardly armed with notebooks and pens, most of the 25 fighters turned policemen have never been in a classroom before. They have spent most of their young lives as combatants in rural areas, and under their ample traditional outfits, their wrist-sized ankles betray how undernourished they are.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/03\/taliban-swap-guns-for-pens-to-learn-about-human-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young men who have spent most of their lives in combat are learning how to behave with civilians as the Taliban transitions from fighting to governingAround a conference room table, young Taliban fighters quietly listen to an instructor teaching them h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3049,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,860,53,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-global-education","category-human-rights","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44146,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145\/revisions\/44146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}