Religion and Education in Tajikistan: Toward Tolerant Civic Society

From 1992 to 1997, Tajikistan experienced a multi-layered civil war between excommunists on the one hand and a coalition of “democrats” and Islamists on the other, between Uzbeks and Tajiks, between Tajiks from different regions of Tajikistan, and even between forces supposedly fighting on the same side in the civil war. In 1997, fighting largely came to an end through a power-sharing agreement that placed the Islamic/democratic opposition into government positions that had previously been the exclusive preserve of the ex-communists.