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After the Islamic State?

Jacqueline Parry discusses post-conflict reconciliation in Iraq, and the possible reemergence of an Iraqi nationalism.

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By Mohanad Hage Ali
Published on Feb 7, 2018
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Diwan, a blog from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program and the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center, draws on Carnegie scholars to provide insight into and analysis of the region. 

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Jacqueline Parry is research director at the Institute of Regional and International Studies at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. She holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Ph.D. in international law from the Australian National University, examining post-conflict justice in Liberia and Afghanistan. From 2007 until 2017 she worked in programmatic and research roles for the United Nations Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration, and the International Rescue Committee, in Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Malawi, and Afghanistan. She was recently in Beirut for a Carnegie roundtable on post-conflict reconstruction and sat with Diwan to discuss communal reconciliation and post-conflict justice processes in Iraq, particularly after the defeat of the Islamic State. 

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Mohanad Hage Ali

Deputy Director for Research, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center

Mohanad Hage Ali is the deputy director for research at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center.

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