Ahmad Javeed Ahwar

Ahmad Javeed Ahwar is a writer, an author and a youth activist. He was born on the 29^th May, 1987 in Afghanistan. Ahmad describes himself to be a man who is secular and anti-Talibanism activist in the social media. He can speak many languages like Persian, which is his native language, English language, Urdu, Dutch, Arabic language and Pashtu. In the later part of the year 2011, Ahmad published his first book with the aid of Friedrich Ebert Stifung in Afghanistan with the book having the title, ‘Path Dependency and the International Conferences on Afghanistan: From Bonn 2001 to Bonn 2011’.

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Education

Ahmad finished his high school education in Ghazni region of the country in the year 2003. Later after that he got an admission to the faculty of Law and Political Science in the University of Kabul, in Kabul Afghanistan in the year 2004. Ahmad graduated from the Diplomacy Department of Political Science Faculty in the early section of the year 2009. Later in the year 2010 he got scholarship for MA in Political Science Program of the OSCE Academy that is in Bishkek Kyrgyzstan. Ahmad spent two month in Switzerland, he was there as a research intern with the Geneva Center for Security Policy, and there he did his first research on his MA thesis, which later developed more by Ahmad as the first book he wrote in his career on Afghanistan.

Career History

As a junior student of his faculty, he agreed to the research program of the National Center for Policy Research in his country in the year 2007. Ahmad wrote his final study on the Interpellation of Ministers and the Influence on the performance of the government of the country. Later he worked with the Asia Foundation’s office in his country, and he made researches on corruption and common methodologies of research for the research institutes of the country. In the year 2009 he served as a Lawyer investigator with the Electoral Complaints Commission in his country, and there he in company with the foreign and local colleagues reviewed electoral grievances against the presidential election 2009’s candidates. According to him he had a great contribution to the invalidation of the fraudulent votes of the current president of the country, Hamid Karzai and some other candidates of the presidential as well as provincial council’s candidates. Also he served with the parliament of the country, USAID Afghanistan as well as Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Office in his country. At the same time he taught various subjects of law at the Dunya University of Higher Education in his country, Afghanistan as a lecturer. Ahmad was writing for Zamzama weekly paper that is widely distributed in Kabul and Ghazni.  Currently, Ahmad is writing for The True Pen.