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Understanding the roots of Kurdish resilience to violent extremism in Iraq

Summary

What are the reasons behind the limited impact of violent extremism and the Islamic State in the Kurdistan region of Iraq?

 

In this episode of the NUPI podcast The World Stage, Dlawer Ala’Aldeen (Middle East Research Institute), Juline Beaujouan (University of Edinbrugh & Open Think Tank) and Morten Bøås (NUPI) are standing at the top of the citadel of Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq to discuss this topic.

 

This podcast is part of the PREVEX project. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870724.

Themes

  • Terrorism and extremism
  • Foreign policy
  • Humanitarian issues
  • Conflict
  • Fragile states
  • Insurgencies

Guests

Dlawer Ala‘Aldeen
Juline Beaujouan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh