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I. Background
Arman Website was initially designed in 2002 and launched later online
in 2003, focusing on
Afghanistan issues. The main
objective for running such
a website was
preparing and publishing useful information
online with a closer look at Afghanistans
traditionally and historically ragged
profile in the world, by taking
initiatives in an alternative
approach and with different inspiration in social, cultural,
historical and educational spheres.We know that
this is the age of communication and media, the age of
information technology, the age of international data
transfer, the age of satellite global shadow and the age of
the hegemony of global Internet governance! Therefore, nobody and
no country- even an Afghanistan under the sovereignty of
Taliban!- would remain isolated
from the growing integrated global community.
Arman website
has tried much to connect and share Afghans views and
opinions with others in both national and international
levels and on world and
regional shared issues and problems, as well as it has left
a profound impact of positive change in the negative minds
and attitudes of others towards Afghan people; particularly
the neighboring countries and the Persian speaking people, as well as on
intellectual grounds of thinking. There are non-Afghan writers
in our columnists list that have shared their views and
writings with Afghan intellectuals in different areas and subjects
particularly in the critical areas and categories
of: thoughts and philosophy, international and regional
issues and literary works. Therefore, a number of our
writers com from non-Afghan nationalities and, so, they are
all welcome!The website has successively been developed into
a
fully informational and
discussion forum since its beginning in 2002 and is open
to all who tend to publish articles, essays, comments and
books on this site- regardless of ethnic, religious and
social origins. The website has got a
sub-title "Afghan Freelance Writers Club" which means that
it gives "Freelance Writers"
and the young authors a chance that their
works be published and viewed by approximately
40,000 visitors per month. The
website has been confirmed both nationally and
internationally as one of the
leading in-depth and mostly
popular online
civil portals of Afghanistan, backed up by
kindly and friendly writers and readers.
II.
Objectives and Priorities
Arman
website is related to none of political parties and tribal
groups and initially, dose not oppose or advocate any of the
past and existing military-political circles and factions in
Afghanistan. The website is merely informative, focusing on academic
measures and activities. The principal objective of the site
is not creating just endless
"journalistic
conflicts and uproars". The main goal and priority is promoting academic
motives and activities among intellectuals and in public
debates; And
we welcome all diverse views and comments just in this
regard. Admin of the
site will
be very glad to receive well-performed articles
(particularly from students) on subjects such as: Law, Human
Rights, Philosophy and Thinking, Politics, Economics,
History, Religion, Social, Cultural, Literary analysis and
the current situation in Afghanistan, the region and the
world. Analysis, researches, interviews and reports from the
perspective of social justice, the rule of law, civil
society building and promotion of human rights is deeply
welcome. The website
insists on and tries much to expand the concept of peace and
the conception of justice
instead of war and conflict among
Afghan intellectual and educated circles. As foresaid
in above, this website concentrates on analytic views and academic
works, preferably, on Afghanistan and the related issues.
Although, it has a news section fetching fresh news from
external sources each hour, the site is not a news source
web.
Therefore, if
analytic comments and reports represent more different views, circles
and groups and can promote peace and rationalization among
different Afghan ethnic groups through reading, processing
and debating materials, then, it would certainly
guarantee the goals and priorities of the website.
III. Sections
III. 1.
Articles
This is the main section of the website
which contains 1045 active (at the present time: Friday,
February 05, 2010) and more than 2000 inactive articles. The
topics relevant to this section are:
Political,
Social,
Cultural,
Literary,
Economic,
Historical,
Thoughts and Philosophy,
In-depth and Research Studies,
Humor and Satire,
Law and Human Rights,
Women and Children,
Media and Communication,
Refugees and Immigrants,
Reports and Interviews,
International and Regional Issues,
Multimedia,
Law Texts,
Communique, Announcements and Call for
Conferences.
III. 2.
Afghanistan Special Page
This section
contains legal texts, academic papers and research resources
and the relevant issues to Afghanistan collected mainly from
external sources. The categories in this section are:
General Information and Geography,
Human Rights,
Transitional Justice,
Laws and Legal Texts,
Cities,
Economy / Communication, War
and Peace,
Academic Studies,
Research Institutes,
Persian Studies,
Scholars and researchers,
Accords and Treaties
III. 3.
English
Section (Updated!)
The purpose
of this section is to publish or re-publish strategic
articles and analysis on Afghanistan, the region and the
world issues, particularly, the positive and negative
impacts of international community intervention in
Afghanistan for conflict resolution, peace building,
humanitarian aids, human rights promotion and state
building. You can
write your own articles and papers and send them to admin to
be published in this website. Admin would
delightedly be accepting your writings and comments in
English, too. Dont hesitate and email us your own essays
and analysis written in English.
III. 4.
Authors and
Columnists Unique Pages
Arman
website is a forum-based website. Each
writer or
author can
have his/her own account and a unique page (Example).
The page contains all materials that a writer has directly
posted under his/her account name or the admin has posted
under his account. All of each authors posts are displayed
on his/her unique page and a considerable number of posts
are listed under the full story of an article when opened. In this
section, all types of comments, articles, views, critiques,
and even personal diaries are welcome! All is needed is a
pre-registration and having a user account. Member
journalists can directly post, edit and delete their posts
and profile whenever needed. But the only restriction to the
section is that a material must not be contrary to the
general principles, the core rules and goals of the website
and must not be offensive or insulting to any personal
identities, causing social conflicts and tensions and
spreading ethnic or religious hatreds.
III. 5.
Library (Updated!)
The
library contains thousands of e-book URLS online in
Persian and English. The Books are elaborately categorized
and are easy to access since most of the references are
academic and world universities book collections.
III. 6.
Gallery
Gallery of this site is separated into sub-categories
including: PDF, Flat Text, Word, Image (jpg/gif), Audio
(mp3/mid/vav) and Video files. Image and PDF sections are
currently being used for news/article updates but other
directories are temporarily out of use.
III. 7.
Links (Updated!)
The
Link section contains thousands of external website
links
basically in three categories:
Afghanistan and
Specialized websites and External
Referrers.
III. 8.
News
Latest News fetches hourly fresh news form a set
of diverse and distinct news
sources and show the headlines and full stories on this section both in Dari and English along
with diverse links of hyper-strategic analysis and views online;
concerning Afghanistan, Terrorism, Peace, War, Human Rights,
Conflict resolution and prevention, International and
Regional Studies.
III. 9.
Click Bank
Click bank was created for quick-linking to Persian
resources, particularly, Afghan websites/ weblogs. It has
many topics and any body can share his favorite external links only. The
full text of materials is not allowed to insert in this
section due to the case of copy right and intellectual
property.
IV. Help!
The website has been designed,
modified, and moderated- since its start
in 2002- by Amin Arman (Mohseni), an Afghan university
student. Please take
part in this public work and send your suggestions,
recommendations and preferences to admin to improve and develop
the website much better than ever. Your opinion will be very
instructive to us. For more
details of publication terms and privacy policy, please refer to the Persian
description on the right column.
Regards,Amin Arman,
Administrator, Contact:
http://www.armans.info/contact
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