The Taliban shifts tactics in its determination to control and oppress women

By Brian McQuinn, Co-Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Conflict and Assistant Professor, International Studies, University of Regina
Cody Buntain, Research assistant professor, Social Media, University of Maryland
Laura Courchesne, PhD Candidate, International Relations, University of Oxford

Research into 70 new Taliban policies to control women and girls shows the extremist, misogynistic group might be using different tactics, but it still poses grave dangers to Afghan society.

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