The violent incidents, which have had their effect on Afghanistan's peoplefor a long time, have increased in recent years. With the fall of Afghanistanto the hands of the Taliban, concerns have grown over the country forvarious ethnic and particularly for the Hazara Shiites. The Hazara are one ofthe minority groups in this country as over a long period endured variousforms of oppression by the hands of Pashtun rulers and governments, fromethnic cleansing to slavery and systematic eviction from ancestral homes and lands. Therefore, the following study aims to investigate how the Hazara peopleperceive the peace process in their nation, the focusing of this study isbetween 2020-2022 and the perception of the reasons for the regularexplosions in their area. The method used in this thesis is qualitative methods in the form of interviewand discourse analysis. The Norwegian professor Johan Galtung's triangle ofviolence (which includes structural, cultural and direct violence) has beenused to analyze theoretical connections. Results of the study have shown that in a country like Afghanistan wheremost people belong to the Sunni Muslims that include Taliban and otherextremist groups who also currently rule the country consider Hazara to beinfidels. Since Pashtuns (previously had the power) or the Taliban (who havecurrent power over this country) believe the Hazaras have been persecuted,targeted, killed for many years. In terms of how these groups view the peace process in their country, theresults show that this group cannot predict what will happen due to manydifferent factors that are important and affected in this country such as theTaliban rule over the country, the financial crisis due to the long-lasting warand the large percentage of the population that is illiterate.

This study explores how feminism and women’s rights as concepts can look in Afghanistan and how a political organization RAWA interprets them. This study focuses on specific armed conflict contexts in Afghanistan, and it was chosen because women’s rights have been violated by many actors in the conflicts. I aim to study what kind of factors influence RAWA's interpretation with the use of qualitative content analysis as a research method. Post-colonial feminist theory was chosen to help understand and contextualize RAWA’s status as an Afghan Women's organization and rhetoric. Material includes RAWA's documents from its official website where it has published feminist political statements on different subjects. The post-colonial feminist concept of “Third World" woman works as a theoretical frame of this study. This theoretical standpoint of post-colonial feminism was chosen to help analyze the main research question of how RAWA interprets feminism. Mainstream feminism is still primarily understood from the Western liberal feminist point of view, focusing on a broad sense of gender equality, suffrage rights in a democratic system, and fighting the patriarchy (e.g. man’s supremacy). Though, liberal feminism is criticized for forgetting women's experiences outside the West. Thus, post-colonial feminism has had the important duty of relieving of experiences of “Third World” women and staying as a critical voice against liberal feminism. Hence, we need multiple feminist concepts and theories to reveal different human experiences to gain equality and understand different forms of oppression. This thesis' main academic interest is to research how feminism can differ from time and place. Hence, the paper then examines hegemonic power dynamics inside feminism and analyses how women in old colonies could determine their versions of feminism.