ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book looks at the fraught mix of factors that have driven the conflict in Afghanistan. Nation and ethnicity in discourse and as operational living realities stand and abide in the Afghan setting at a clear definitive distance. It focuses on the operational play of the triadic nexus model. The model's working demonstrates foremost how the political, economic and cultural policies pursued by elites in control of the state apparatus deviated from the inclusive concept of the nation in Afghanistan. The book spells out the deep irony in the triadic interplay at work during the period of internecine conflict that characterized Mujahideen rule. Forbidding power of the ethno-political salience in the 1990s was moved and constituted by the relational interplay between the triadic fields of nationalizing state, national minorities and external actors.
