Measuring Perceptions About The Pashtun People

Synopsis

This Report Documents The Results Of A Study, Not About The Pashtun People, But About Beliefs About The Pashtun People. The Purpose Of This Study Was To Identify The Range Of Perceptions Or Misperceptions Of Pashtun Communities Among Policymakers, Experts, And Other Opinion Leaders, Including Some Who Have A Degree Of Influence Over Policy And Strategy Decisions In The Pashtun Belt Of Afghanistan And Pakistan. In A Sense, It Was An Effort To Catalog Pashtun 'stereotypes'-- Standardized Schemes Of Thought About Pashtuns--and Determine The Degree To Which Those Stereotypes Are Held By English Speakers With Influence Over Both Public Opinion And The Policies That Affect Or Are Affected By Pashtuns--p. 1. Amin Tarzi, Robert D. Lamb. A Report Of The Csis Program On Crisis, Conflict, And Cooperation And Middle East Studies At Marine Corps University--cover. March 2011. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 19-25).