On 28-30 June, PRIO co-organized a conference in Beirut on Societal Inclusion and Reconciliation: Two Pillars for Building a Better Future in Iraq. Iraqis from different regions, political orientations, and religious communities attended the event, along with participants from Britain, Iran, Lebanon, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States.
Ester Strømmen, Research Assistant at PluriCourts at the University of Oslo, has written a GPS Policy Brief on women in Da'esh.
Erlend Paasche has successfully defended his doctoral thesis today, 7 October, at the University of Oslo. His thesis is titled Return Migration and Corruption: Experiences of Iraqi Kurds. Congratulations!
The 'Erbil Declaration' on Inclusive Citizenship in Iraq sums up the joint recommendations of a group of intellectuals and religious leaders from a wide range of Iraqi communities and several European countries. It resulted from a conference that took place in Erbil on 2-4 June 2016.
Many asylum seekers who opt for assisted return come home to countries ruined by war and conflicts. More than half of the persons who return to countries like Afghanistan and Iraq plan to remigrate. A new evaluation of assisted return programms shows that small and uncostly changes can increase the chances that people stay.
Has the Iraqi Kurds’ sense of national identity been strengthened by the emergence of the so-called Islamic State? Not necessarily. If anything, mounting socio-economic and political tensions inside northern Iraq have been tearing at Kurdish nationalism for the last decade.
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