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Empty Classrooms and Black Market Textbooks
Analysis, Education for Peace in Iraq Center

Empty Classrooms and Black Market Textbooks

For Iraqi youth, opportunities to attend school have diminished. Without renewed investment in the country’s education system, the next 30 years will witness the maturation of a generation lacking its predecessor’s skills and training — reshaping its socio-economic environment. Continue reading “Empty Classrooms and Black Market Textbooks”

Cycles of Crisis
Interview

Cycles of Crisis

KENNETH POLLACK — The same political mistakes that sparked Iraq’s conflict in 2006 and 2014 threaten to tear the country apart again.
Continue reading “Cycles of Crisis”

Devils You Don’t Know
Interview

Devils You Don’t Know

MICHAEL KNIGHTS — The Islamic State is the least of Iraq’s challenges.  Continue reading “Devils You Don’t Know”

Myths and Marginalization
Interview

Myths and Marginalization

FANAR HADDAD — Iraq’s sectarian competition has been much more about differences in national truths than religious ones. Continue reading “Myths and Marginalization”

On the Verge
Interview

On the Verge

MOHAMMED SHAREEF — Since 2003 Iraqi Kurdistan has changed from a pawn to an actor. Today this transformation is being put to the test. Continue reading “On the Verge”

Constructing Division
Interview

Constructing Division

JOSEPH SASSOON — Endless violence has fundamentally cleaved Iraqi society. Yet there are no incentives to change this system. Continue reading “Constructing Division”

Beyond the Sect
Interview

Beyond the Sect

HARITH HASAN — A misguided discourse hides the deep secular and political roots of Iraq’s dramatic dissolution. Continue reading “Beyond the Sect”

Lessons from the US War in Iraq: Ten Years Later
Analysis

Lessons from the US War in Iraq: Ten Years Later

Few events of the last decade have loomed as large in US politics as the US decision to invade Iraq … Continue reading Lessons from the US War in Iraq: Ten Years Later

The Faces of Iraq’s Intelligentsia
Analysis

The Faces of Iraq’s Intelligentsia

The P-WW’s Editor discusses the plight of Iraq’s intellectual class at Al Jazeera English. This article is the first in … Continue reading The Faces of Iraq’s Intelligentsia

Rushing to the Finish
Interview

Rushing to the Finish

KENNETH M. POLLACK — When the United States withdrew from Iraq in 2011, they pulled the ground out from under a country still trying to find its political feet. The effects of this rush to exit threaten Iraqi democracy today.  Continue reading “Rushing to the Finish”

Interview

Examining Saddam’s Iraq

AMATZIA BARAM – Saddam learned his own lessons from Iraq’s political history, and his conclusions were not that illogical.  Continue reading “Examining Saddam’s Iraq”

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