--- title: World: The Downside of the Death of Mullah Omar description: The downside of the demise of Mullah Omar, why the pipeline is only part of the problem getting women in tech and more. canonical: https://time.com/3980029/mullah-omar-afghanistan-peace-talks/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-31T16:28:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:13.666Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Downside of the Death of Mullah Omar og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3980029/mullah-omar-afghanistan-peace-talks/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Downside of the Death of Mullah Omar twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Downside of the Death of Mullah Omar by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 31, 2015 4:28 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 31, 2015 4:28 PM UTC **1\.** [**The U.S. put a $10 million bounty on Mullah Omar. But his death might spell disaster for peace talks in Afghanistan.**](http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/07/mullah-omars-death-could-be-nightmare-afghanistan-and-nato/118733/) By David Rohde in Defense One **2\.** [**If you think women in tech is just a pipeline problem, you haven’t been paying attention.**](https://medium.com/@racheltho/if-you-think-women-in-tech-is-just-a-pipeline-problem-you-haven-t-been-paying-attention-cb7a2073b996) By Rachel Thomas in Medium **3\.** [**Politicians propping up food prices are playing with fire.**](http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/07/29/bread-circuses-and-other-political-lessons-we-should-not-have-learned-from-the-romans/) By Joseph Weinberg in Political Violence at a Glance **4\.** [**There are still more than four million unexploded mines in Cambodia. These rats are sniffing them out.**](http://www.citylab.com/tech/2015/07/rats-are-being-trained-to-sniff-out-land-mines/398909/) By Linda Poon in CityLab **5\.** [**Robot umpires aren’t perfect, but they’re better than humans at calling strikes and balls.**](http://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9068611/baseball-robot-umpire) By Joseph Stromberg in Vox  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3980029/mullah-omar-afghanistan-peace-talks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3980029/mullah-omar-afghanistan-peace-talks/"},"headline":"The Downside of the Death of Mullah Omar","datePublished":"2015-07-31T16:28:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:13.666Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3980029/mullah-omar-afghanistan-peace-talks/","keywords":["Innovation","Afghanistan","Baseball","NATO"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3980029/mullah-omar-afghanistan-peace-talks/","name":"The Downside of the Death of Mullah Omar"}}]}] ```