{"id":1524,"date":"2019-04-07T05:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T05:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2019-04-07T05:22:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T05:22:57","slug":"caps-hosts-afghan-samoon-society-for-a-discussion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=1524","title":{"rendered":"CAPS Hosts Afghan Samoon Society For A Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Feb 20, 2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>CAPS Hosts Afghan Samoon Society For A Discussion<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>As part of its engagement with the civil societies, on 18th February 2019, the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) hosted members of the Afghan Samoon Society. Welcoming the participants, Hekmat K. Karzai, CAPS\u2019 Chairman shared his views about the peace process and CAPS\u2019 contribution to the process. Since his return, Mr Karzai said, CAPS\u2019 efforts are mainly focusing on peace. He said Afghans are paying the ultimate sacrifices and after decades of violence, they deserve to live in peace and freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on behalf of Afghan Samoon Society, Abdul Qadar Matin thanked for the opportunity to visit CAPS and learn about it&#8217;s peacebuilding activities. He said Samoon Society follows the recent developments in peace talks closely and works with Afghans at the grassroots level. He said that people in rural areas have different understanding of peace process than those in the urban capitals. Mr Matin hailed CAPS\u2019 activities and believed they play a constructive role in shaping peoples\u2019 perceptions towards peace.<\/p>\n<p>Malalai Shinwari, Senior Advisor to President Ashraf Ghani and senior member of Afghan Samoon Society said that compromise on the achievements of last 17 years are unacceptable to the people. She argued that Afghans elites should be united to support national processes and ensure that peace talks are inclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Concluding the discussion, Mr Karzai said that he fully supports the idea of inclusiveness of the peace talks and it would happen only when the Afghan government becomes part of the intra-Afghan dialogue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 20, 2019 CAPS Hosts Afghan Samoon Society For A Discussion As part of its engagement with the civil societies, on 18th February 2019, the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) hosted members of the Afghan Samoon Society. Welcoming the participants, Hekmat K. Karzai, CAPS\u2019 Chairman shared his views about the peace process and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}