Affiliation:
1. Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation Hiroshima University Higashi‐Hiroshima Japan
2. The IDEC Institute Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Network for Education and Research on Peace and Sustainability (NERPS) Hiroshima University Higashi‐Hiroshima Japan
Abstract
AbstractThis paper reports the results of an experiment conducted before the 2021 regime change in Afghanistan that examined how different types of information strategies affected private sector support for a hypothetical peace agreement with the Taliban. We compared the impact of historical, pecuniary, and religious information on the stated preferences of Afghan business elites and employees in Kabul. The results show that historical information had less of an effect than pecuniary information on respondents' probability of accepting a peace agreement with the Taliban but a slightly larger effect than religious information. Although the context of the study has dramatically changed, the findings can inform practitioners and policymakers in mediating future peace negotiations in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
Subject
Development,Geography, Planning and Development