Resolving a dispute

a. What the dispute is about.

The dispute is about the war in Afghanistan against Taliban fighters.
b. What led to the dispute?
Since the early 1990s, the Taliban are former Afghan resistance fighters, also known
as mujahedeen. They once defended the invasion of Soviet forces in the 1980s with the
help of Osama Bin Laden and other influential people that strengthened their armed
forces. After successfully fighting against the Soviet Union, they want to remove foreign
influences and impose their interpretation of Islamic law on the country. They started
hitting foreign forces within the country and other Islamic regions. However, this
includes the heavy restriction on women who are restricted to receive education and
overall freedom, which made a resistance within their community. This changed when
their men hijacked four commercial planes in the US that led to crushing into the World
Trade Center towers. More than 2,700 people were killed from the attacks, which
prompted the US to fight against the Taliban. The US could secure capital by placing
aircraft and an army for support to fight against the Taliban. After the Taliban flees away
from the capital, they wanted to have peace with the people of Afghanistan inside the
capital that the US protects, but their current president ignored it. They signed a peace
deal in 2020, but they started once again to take over Afghanistan in early August, and on
August 15, 2021, they entered and took control of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul.
c. What the government officials from the disputing countries are doing to address the
problem.
The government officials were not directly involved, but through religion, they could
obtain support from the prince of Saudi Arabia. It was later addressed by fighting against
the Soviet Union. However, after removing foreign countries within their regions in the
name of their religion, they attacked some US bases. Those opposed to the Taliban had
aid from the US for human resources and modern equipment that led to their freedom for
decades from 2001 until early 2021. However, once the US troops were withdrawn from
Afghanistan, the Taliban started to take control of the country, leading the president of
Afghanistan to leave the country without announcement when it was once again attacked.
d. How the concept and sense of nationalism are observed in the different measures to
address the dispute.
A strong sense of nationalism was shown when Afghanistan fought against the Soviet
Union. However, nationalism was not felt when the president of Afghanistan left his
home country for his protection and for the pretense of avoiding “a flood of bloodshed”
against the forces of the Taliban.