TERMS

=__**Terms to Know**__=

__Coup:__ **the sudden overthrow of a government**

__I.D.P.:__ **Internally Displaced Persons**

__Kabul:__ **the capital and largest city of Afghanistan**

__Peace:__ **the absence of war or other hostilities**

__Opium:__ **a bitter, yellowish-brown, strongly addictive narcotic drug**

__Leader:__ **someone who leads**

__Culture:__ **a shared, learned, symbolic system of values, beliefs and attitudes that shapes and influences perception and behavior**

__Security:__ **something that gives or assures safety**

__Anarchy:__ **absence of government**

__Freedom:__ **the condition of being free of restraints**

__Oppress:__ **to keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority**

__Community:__ **a unified body of individuals**

__Status Quo:__ **the present existing state of affairs**

__Afghanistan:__ **a landlocked country located in approximately the center of Asia**

__Islamic Law:__ **the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings of Mohamed**

__Narco-State:__ **an area that has been taken over and is corrupted by drug cartels**

__Regionalism:__ **political division of an area into partially autonomous regions**

__Human Rights:__ **rights & freedoms to which all humans are entitled**

__Soviet Invasion:__ **a nine-year conflict between Soviet forces and the mujahideen resistance**

__Communication:__ **process by which information is exchanged between individuals**

__Ethnic Harmony:__ **peaceable or friendly relations between different ethnicities**

__The Kite Runner:__ **a novel by Khaled Hosseini**

__Fundamentalism:__ **a strict adherence to or interpretation of a doctrine**

__National Integration:__ **process in which the nation enters a regional organization in order to increase cooperation and diffuse tensions**

__Divide and Conquer:__ **strategy used to gain and maintain power by breaking up a larger concentration of power**

__Central Government:__ **the area of government that is concerned with national issues**

__Warlord:__ **individual who excercises a combination of military, political, and economic powere outside constituional or legal framework**