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Formal education can be a mechanism for increasing social tolerance, political transparency and cultural integration; thus, a discussion of the relationship between political and social instability and resultant struggle with comprehensive educational reform in Kurdistan is timely. This chapter, written by the two university presidents of the only American-style not-for-profit institutions in Kurdistan/Iraq,...
The paper presents a discussion of ‘honour’-based violence, followed by the methods, findings and recommendations. Using a gender perspective, it places particular emphasis on the ideas for action on honour-based violence emerging from the research. It is based on activism and attempts to enable social change for women.Full text: http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/czasopismo/589/?idno=14760
This article presents an overview of the history the largest nation in the world without its own independent state. Nationalist aspirations of an approximately 30 million Kurds living within the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria remain a factor of instability in the geostrategically important Middle East, especially due to the fact that Kurds inhabit areas with strategically important resources...
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