Publication

In order to clarify how border communities view the threats and opportunities that borderlands present, this study shares the results of fieldwork done across nine districts in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. More specifically, the text’s authors look at how border populations view their human security needs, how they relate to communities “on the other side,” and what roles they could play in reducing border tensions. The authors also consider whether frontier communities benefit from cross-border interactions and whether government approaches towards border securitization actually correspond to the human security concerns of local communities.