Education and Ethno-Politics: Defending Identity in Iraq

ISBN-13: 9780367871475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 160 str.

Kelsey Shanks

Opis

The Iraqi Disputed Territories consist of 15 districts stretching across four northern governorates and curve from the Syrian to Iranian borders. 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 fac

Spis treści

1. Chapter One: Ethno-politics, the Ba’ath era and the Disputed Territories 2. Chapter Two: Conceptual Framework 3. Chapter Three: Iraqi Education through a Societal Security Lens 4. Chapter 4: Ethnically appropriate education: Threats and Survival 5. Chapter Five: Education’s interaction with conflict 6. Chapter six: Conclusion

O autorze

Kelsey Shanks is a Research Fellow at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Research Associate at Ulster University’s UNESCO Centre. She has also worked as an Education Technical Advisor for the United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq and served as a Peace-building Education Advisor to UNICEF in Iraq. Her research focuses on the relationship between education, youth and conflict in the Middle East.