Introduction to the Faculty of Political Science & Law

As it is clear that in the last forty years, the war has completely or partially destroyed the majority of the physical and spiritual infrastructures of our beloved country, the Afghans are in a serious need of a large number of experienced and experts of humanities including Political science & Law in order to reconstruct the destroyed infrastructures, generalize education, the rule of law and the achievement of social justice, and to accelerate and commit the judicial and political cycle of their country. In fact, the current higher education institutions do not have the capacity to attract all 12th grade graduates to this field in the current situation nor in the coming years, so the establishment of the Faculty of Political Science & Law in the framework of Salam University is considered a positive step to fill this gap to some extent. Thus, a group of Afghan professionals with the aim of approaching this goal in their war-torn country, dedicated to establish the Political science & Law faculty to create educational and professional facilities for eligible and for those individuals who would like to study in this field so that the Faculty turns into the source of service and facilitates social and economic growth and development for them in the country.

The Faculty of Law and Political Science was one of the three faculties that first started operating within the framework of Salam University in 2011.  

Specific Goals

1- Educating expert cadres in the fields of judiciary and politics.

 2- Launching academic research in the fields of Law and politics.

3- Educating specialized cadres in the field of institutionalizing the rules of human rights at the national and international level.

4- Generating a suitable ground for professors, students, scientists and researchers to exchange ideas, experiences and academic debates.

5- Equipping individuals with the characteristics of leadership of the society in the fields of judiciary, attorney and analysis of international law and political affairs.

6- Taking part in developing the rule of law and political culture in the society.

Departments in Political Science:

1-     Department of Political Science

Ø Degree awarded: Bachelor of Political Science

2-       Department of Law

Ø Degree awarded: Bachelor of Law 

3-       Department of International Relation

Ø Degree awarded: Bachelor of International Law

  

Class Timings:

           For males:

08:00 AM – 12:00 PM

05:00 PM – 8:30 PM

         For females:

07:30 AM – 11:30 AM

01:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

   Fee Structure of Political Science

Description	Amount	Discount	Payable Amount
Admission(Only Once)	5500A FN	0%	5500 AFN
Semester Fee	24000 AFN	30%	16800 AFN
Total Degree Fee	192000 AFN	30%	134400 AFN

 

 

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Judiciary and Prosecution Department

The bachelor's degree program of Law Department is the first law degree course in the system of higher education. The aim of this department is to educate and train experts at national and international level in the field of judiciary based on the Afghan legal system and international legal standards in order to meet the legal needs of society, legal institutions and the judicial and the private sectors.

Vision

The Department of Law of Faculty of Law & Political Science, educates and presents expert academic cadres to the community through teaching and research in the fields of judiciary and prosecution so that they can serve the people in this field properly.  

Mission

The Department of Law wants to draw students' attention to the judicial phenomena of the current era and guides them by using the modern and developing methods of teaching and research. In addition, it aims to prepare students to compete in the job market.

General need for this department at the national level

Every society requires discipline, law and apt administration. In fact, these needs are achievable through having competent judges, prosecutors, lawyers and legal advisers of public and private institutions at the national and international levels. Thus, educating the workforce and specialists to achieve high positions by getting quality education in the field of law, are considered a necessity of any society. Therefore, the Department of Law was established as a field of study in the Faculty of Law and Political Science in 2011 with extensive facilities based on the needs of the country. 

 

Values

According to the principles governing society, preserving the highest interests of the country, strengthening national unity, commitment to improve the quality and quantity of academic and applied legal education, application of internationally accepted standards in the academic environment, generalization of responsibility, the following basic values have been noticed:

 1- Respect for Islamic and national values.

 2- Improvement of the essence of national unity, convergence and enhancement of political stability.  

 3- Respect for human dignity, generalization of justice, equality and legality.

 4- Higher education with quality and standards commensurate with the needs of society and the job market.

 5- The principle of accountability and legalism.

 6- Perfect, effective and efficient administration.

 

Specialized Fields of This Department:

Graduates of the Department of Law can continue their studies in one of the following specialized fields:

1- Public law

2 - Private law

3 - Criminal law and criminology

4 - International Law

5-  Fundamental rights

 

Introduction to the Department of Political science

The Department of Political Science is one of the most important departments of the Faculty of Law and Political Science which has been operating since the establishment of the Faculty and has got sufficient teaching facilities, some of which are mentioned below:

Most of the academic cadre members of the Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Law and Political Science hold master’s degrees from domestic and foreign international universities and have sufficient professional experience. The University always makes great efforts to improve the quality, quantity, standardization and systematization of the activities of the Faculty of Law and Political Science in order to introduce it as reliable, standard, honest, authentic and service-oriented educational body at the level of governmental and non-governmental educational institutions of the country by presenting quality and standard teaching activities. 

Vision and Mission

Vision

The Department of Political Science of the Faculty of Law & Political Science educates and presents expert academic cadres to the community through teaching and research in the fields of Political Science so that they will have the competence to serve the people in this field properly.     

Mission

The Department of Political Science wants to draw students' attention to the political phenomena of the current era and guides them by using the modern and developing methods of teaching and research. In addition, it aims to prepare students to compete in the job market.   

Objectives of the Department of Political Science:  

1-      Promoting the academic level of students and educating expert and committed cadres in the field of political science.

2-      Conducting academic and professional research in the fields of political science.

3-      Making the young generation Aware of important local, regional and global political events through seminars and conferences.

4-     Educating cadres who can take responsibility in political and legislative institutions.

5-     Educating specialists who address the political needs of the society and make suggestions to solve them.

6-     Presenting the graduates who can be the source of service in promoting the political culture.       

This department has sufficient eligible and experienced professors in all its segments, and if the number of new students increases, it will also increase number of professors.

Currently, the total number of professors in this department reaches (42). Four of them are permanent and the remaining (38) are full-time and part-time contract professors.

Furthermore, out of the above-mentioned professors, (29) are masters and (11) others are bachelors.

 

 

Salam Journal, Issue 11, Spring 2022

The topics of Salam Journal Issue 12, Fall 2022 It is our pleasure that this issue of Salam Academic Journal also covers a wide variety of contents, all of which are updates and discuss the issues according to the need of the time. The brief introduction of articles in this issue is as follows: The first research, titled “Islamic Jurisprudence as a Source of Law or as an Alternative for Law?" has been done by Dr. Misbahullah Abdul Baqi, Chancellor of Salam University. In this article, it has been discussed in detail that the existence of Islamic Jurisprudence does not dispense the country with the law because there are many issues that the laws should contain, which have not been discussed in jurisprudence, and there are some issues that have been discussed, but there are different opinions about, which either need to be preferred initially since the preference (Tarjih) has not been quoted, and there are some other rulings whose preference have been quoted but the basis of the preference has changed, which necessitates to rethink about the preference. Although the article is a little long, its importance convinced the Editorial Board to give permission to publish the complete article in the same issue. The second research, titled “The Way to Get Rid of the Acquired Unlawful Property” has been done by Dr. Najibullah Saleh, A professor of Nangarhar University. In this important research, it has been studied how to get rid of unlawful property if it comes in a person’s possession. This is an important issue that many people are facing with and need a proper opinion and ruling about it. The third research, titled “Reflection of Concepts of the Holy Quran in the Poems of Allama Iqbal Lahori” has been done by Dr. Abdul Sabboor Fakhri, A professor at the Faculty of Literature of Kabul University. He has studied a very important topic. He has tried to prove that most of the thoughts of Allama Iqbal are directly influenced by the Holy Quran. The fourth research, titled (Concept, Fundamentals and Principles of Criminal Politics) has been done by Pro. Mr. Abu Bakr Mudaqq, Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs-Salam University. It is about an issue that every country immensely requires in order to combat crimes. In this article, he made it clear that there is a serious need for a number of principles to determine the procedure of fight against crime and criminal, and these principles are called Criminal Politics. This research answers a number questions, which are: what is the concept of 20 criminal politics? How was it created? What are its principles and fundamental topics? In general, this research is a brief introduction to a new science called "Criminal Politics". In the English section, we have only one research, titled (Increasing Engineers’ Role in Construction Safety: Opportunities and Barriers) which has been done by Mr. Ahmad Naveed Rabani He studied a very important topic which is the issue of a trained engineer’s role in construction safety and preventing incidents, which often occur in construction projects. He discussed its importance in details. The articles published in Salam Academic Journal reflect the views of the authors, but the pages of the Journal are always at the service of esteemed authors for the publication of sound criticism of the published articles. وسبحانک اللهم وبحمدک نشهد أن ال إله إال أنت نستغفرك ونتوب إليك.