Kamaran Palani

Kamaran Palani is a Research Fellow at the Middle East Research Institute. He defended his PhD thesis on Fluidity and Dynamics of De Facto Statehood: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan (Leiden University, The Netherlands, 2021). Prior to his PhD, Kamaran acquired extensive experience by working with various local and international NGOs, academic and research centres, including Salahaddin University-Erbil, Al Mesalla, Peace and Freedom Organisation, Spark, UNAMI, UNDP, PAX, and Iraq Studies in Beirut. Kamaran’s research interests include the study of de facto statehood in the international system, Iraqi politics, regional Kurdish politics, internal displacement, and violent extremism in Iraq and the Middle East. Palani has published his work in international peer-reviewed journals, such as: Third World Quarterly, Ethnopolitics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and International Migration.

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Publications by Kamaran Palani:

Erbil-Baghdad relations: Twenty years since the regime change
Published on: 20 Mar 2023
Violent Extremism in Mosul & the Kurdistan Region: Context, Drivers, and Public Perception
Published on: 25 Oct 2022
Iraq’s National Strategy to Counter Violent Extremism
Published on: 24 Sep 2021
Ninewa: Initiative Mapping of Sustainable Returns & Stabilization Efforts
Published on: 07 May 2020
Ninewa: Barriers to Return and Community Resilience – A Meta Analysis
Published on: 07 May 2020
Barriers for IDP Return in Nineveh: A Meta-Analysis & Recommendations
Published on: 26 Nov 2019
Ninewa Plains and Western Ninewa Barriers to Return and Community Resilience
Published on: 20 Nov 2019
Turkey and the European Union: Conflicting Policies and Opportunities for Cohesion and Cooperation In Iraq and Syria
Published on: 15 Apr 2018
Displacement-Emigration-Return: Understanding Uncertainty in Iraq
Published on: 25 Jan 2018
Perceptions of EU Crisis Response in Iraq
Published on: 05 Nov 2017