AFGHAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Introduction

The history of the country, and its material and spiritual works, are our ancestors' precious wealth and heritage. It is obvious that studying, researching and better understanding of historical issues increases experiences and better understanding of the future progress of the society. The future can be considered better by studying the past. Those who have learned from history are less likely to make mistakes. Recognizing and expressing the national historical identity, scholarly knowledge of the distant and recent past, and documented understanding of important historical events, their causes and results, or their effects, is a definite necessity for the people of every country and every nation.

However, for more than thirty years, certain efforts have been made to cast doubt on the historical identity of the Afghan people and government, under the misleading title of "revision of the country's history". In the series of brutal activities in this regard, the works of famous historians of the country such as Faiz Mohammad Kateb Hazara, Prof Abdul Hai Habibi, Ahmad Ali Kohzad, Mir Gholam Mohammad Ghobar, Mohammad Sediq Farhang and others were attacked by labelling them "court and government historians". Their scientific and historical importance should be questioned. Fortunately, responsible, knowledgeable and patriotic scientists and researchers of the country have been able to counter and neutralize these hostile anti-national efforts, which are based on distorted statements and falsification of history based on the narrative of biased foreigners.

At the same time, scientific advances and new and enlightening achievements in human sciences, including archaeology, human cytology (genetics), population and migration sciences, linguistics, ethnography, political economy, human geography, etc., have caused our historians and scientists to Express the documented history near and far of the country will provide new facilities that were not available to our historians in the past. Unfortunately, the events of the last 40 years in the country created a great void in the studies of history and human sciences. On the other hand, now there are much richer sources and sources of looking back, which should be clarified and more research should be done. On this note, several researchers and writers jointly decided to establish an institution under the name (Afghan Historical Society) to express the documented and scholarly history and differences of the country's historical national identity.

The name of the Society

The name of the Society is the Afghan Historical Society, which will be referred to as "Society" in this statute.

Legal status

The Society is a non-profit, non-political and independent educational, research, scientific and specialized institution; The Society is formed by a voluntary union of historians & other social scientists living inside and outside the country and other knowledgeable people.

Study and research in the field of Afghan history and social sciences fields including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, ethnography, demography, political economy, human genetics, anthropological studies, etc.;
Encouraging research on the application of these disciplines to better understand the history of Afghanistan;
Improving the scientific capacities of Afghan youth through the teaching of members of this Society in universities and other institutions of higher education in person or through virtual means;
Promotion and consolidation of this Society as an authoritative authority with scientific competence in matters related to the history and civilization of Afghanistan at the national and international levels;
Collecting and publishing documents, written and unwritten texts and documents related to all periods of Afghanistan's history;
Completing and publishing biographies and achievements of historical figures of Afghanistan;
Research in folklore and collect information, traditions, legends and stories related to folk traditions;
Establishing and strengthening communication between specialists in history and human studies and cultural institutions and domestic and foreign scientific centers in these fields; and
Publication of research results through periodical publications (magazines) and non-periodical publications (in the form of books) in print and online.

Types of activities

The Society encourages and facilitates teaching and conducting scientific research on the history and human sciences of Afghanistan by its members;
The Society publishes and disseminates the results of the scientific research of its members and other personalities through a magazine called "History and Civilization of Afghanistan" and organizes an annual conference under the same name;
And If necessary, the Society publishes the results of its activities through the website, face-to-face and virtual meetings, workshops, interviews, seminars and other means of mass communication.

Criteria of activities

The Society applies the recognized international scientific and academic standards in its research work. Community members 1. Members of the Society include full members and honorary members;
Volunteer members are admitted to the full membership of the Society after the acceptance of the statutes through a written request and the approval of two members after the approval of the leadership board;
Founding members and volunteer members after acceptance are called full voting members of the Society; 4. The full members have the citizenship of the Afghan government through birth in Afghanistan, born of Afghan parents or acquisition of citizenship;
Honorary members, at the invitation of the chairman of the board of leadership, have obtained the advisory membership of the Society, they are not bound to have the citizenship of Afghanistan, but they do not have the right to vote in the decisions of the Society; and

The Society can have an unlimited number of members

The organization of the Society includes the general assembly, leadership board, audit and evaluation board, administrative board and special committees;
The general assembly is normally held once a year. In the general meeting, all full members of the Society participate with equal rights;
The board of scientific review and evaluation is selected by the general assembly from among the academic members and researchers and has a chairman and a secretary and meets once a month;
The chairman of the inspection and evaluation board is also responsible for the chairmanship of the Society;
The administrative board consists of the administrative deputy of the Society, the treasurer and the secretary of the Society and is responsible for managing the daily affairs of the Society and arranging the annual audited financial report of the Society and has at least monthly meetings;
The leadership board consists of the heads and members of the audit and evaluation committees and the administrative committee and meets every three months under the chairmanship of the president of the Society; and
Special committees are formed and organized by the leadership board as necessary.