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Education and Ethno-Politics

The Iraqi disputed territories consist of 15 districts stretching across four northern governorates. While an administrative solution for the disputed territories remains evasive, minority groups across the region have been pulled into a clash over demographic composition as each disputed district faces ethnically defined claims. Meanwhile, inter-ethnic communal tensions are rising and questions of identity increasingly overshadow day-to-day life.

There has been little research on the impact of heightened identity politics on the everyday lives of citizens. Regardless of the final administrative outcome, the multi-ethnic population of the region requires services and systems of co-existence, and in the fragile ethno-political environment of the disputed territories, the way in which the education system manages ethnic diversity is crucial. It is within this context that Education and Ethno-Politics examines the development of education systems across the region post-2003. Drawing on over 50 interviews with regional education officials and community representatives, the book presents the impact of amplified ethno-politics on the reconstruction of education in Iraq. It provides the first academic exploration into education in the region, examining the significance of cultural reproduction and the link between demands for ethnically specific education, societal security and the wider political contestation over the territory.

A comprehensive analysis of the powerful role of education in identitybased conflicts, this book offers a highly insightful examination of Iraqs past and present, as well as formulating policy recommendations for its future. It is an essential resource for students, scholars and policymakers with a focus on the Middle East, specifically Iraqi and Kurdish studies, as well as those interested in education policy and conflict studies.

Kelsey Shanks is a Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded Disputed Territories Project (grant number es/m009211/1) at the University of Exeters Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Research Associate at Ulster Universitys UNESCO Centre. She has also worked as an Education Technical Adviser for the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq and served as a Peace-building Education Adviser to UNICEF in Iraq. Her research focuses on the relationship between education, youth and conflict in the Middle East.

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Education and Ethno-Politics

Defending identity in Iraq

Kelsey Shanks

First published 2016

by Routledge

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2016 Kelsey Shanks

The right of Kelsey Shanks to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Shanks, Kelsey.

Education and ethno-politics : defending identity in Iraq / Kelsey Shanks.

pages cm

1. Education and stateIraq. 2. EducationSocial aspectsIraq. 3. IraqEthnic relationsPolitical aspects. 4. Ethnic conflictIraq. I. Title.

LC94.I73S53 2016

379.567dc23

2015018593

ISBN: 978-1-138-85468-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-72092-0 (ebk)

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The project would not have been possible without the cooperative nature of the education actors throughout the disputed territories who gave their time so freely, and those individual non-governmental organization workers, journalists and civil society activists who went out of their way to aid the project with translation, introductions and general support. I must also thank Mick Dumper and Gareth Stansfield for their academic guidance and support.

This research has been kindly supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council large grants scheme, RES-060-25-0015, 20072012, Conflict in Cities and the Contested State: Everyday life and the possibilities for transformation in Belfast, Jerusalem and other divided states.

CPA	Coalition Provisional Authority
DfID	Department for International Development (UK)
DIBs	disputed internal boundaries
EMIS	educational managment information systems
GDP	gross domestic product
GNP	gross national product
GoI	Government of Iraq
IDP	internally displaced person
INEE	Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies
ISDP	Iraq Sustainable Democracy Project
ISF	Iraqi Security Forces
ISIS	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
ITF	Iraqi Turkmen Front
KRG	Kurdistan Regional Government
KRI	Kurdistan Region of Iraq
MoE	Ministry of Education
MRG	minority rights group
NGO	non-governmental organization
SOITM	Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation
UN	United Nations
UNAMI	United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
UNICEF	United Nations Childrens Fund
USAID	United States Agency for International Development

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