Projects

Emergency Security Briefings

MERI’s Emergency Security Briefings provide updates on the current security and political crisis in Iraq.

Emergency Briefing on current Security Developments

MERI Emergency Security Briefing

The Future of EU-Turkey Relations: Mapping Dynamics and Testing Scenarios

FEUTURE is an EU funded (under Horizon 2020) multi-disciplinary research project, carried out by a consortium of 15 highly experienced partner institutes from the EU (CETEUS, CIDOB, CIFE, DIIS, Eliamep, IAI, TEPSA), Turkey (EDAM, Bilgi, Koc, METU, Sabanci) and Iraq (MERI), Georgia (CRRC) and Egypt (AUC). The aim is to assess and analyse future prospects of EU-Turkey relations, and in consideration of the neighbourhood that is unravelling to the east and south and a power shift that can be detected at global level

Website:  FEUTURE.eu

Resilience-building for Syrian refugee camps and the neighbouring host community

This project evaluates the feasibility of transforming the refugee camps and neighbouring towns into resilient communities. In essence, this involves building interventions to address the gaps between the current livelihoods situation and the targeted resilience indicators.

Advancing the concept of resilient livelihoods for Syrian refugees

Learning lessons for a resilience-based development response to the Syrian refugee crisis

With decreasing humanitarian aid, more development must come for refugees and hosts in Kurdistan

Liberating Mosul: Pre and Post Factors for Consideration

The aim of this project is to develop recommendations for the various actors involved in the liberation of Mosul. The key point being that the structural and political issues need to be addressed alongside the military plan for Mosul and before any military engagement. Additionally, this project places importance on the development of a detailed post-conflict reconstruction plan.

Private: The Future of Mosul: Before, During, and After the Liberation

Governing Nineveh After the Islamic State: A Solution for All Components

Roundtable on “The Future of Mosul: Before, During, and After the Liberation”

And the Marginalisation goes on: Iraq and the Politics of Domination

The Battle for Mosul: Pre and Post ‘Liberation’ Planning

Liberating Mosul and the Future of Ninewa

Defeating the Islamic State will take more than Gunpowder

Promoting an effective and inclusive humanitarian emergency response by the KRG

This project evaluates the gaps in KRG’s response to the latest humanitarian crisis and formulates policy recommendations aimed to make the response more effective and inclusive in face of future displacement episodes.

As Displaced Families Return to Nineveh, How to Address Social Cohesion?

Perceptions of Reconciliation and Conflict Among Iraqi Minority Groups

This research aims at understanding perceptions of reconciliation and conflict among five minority groups in the North of Iraq. Those groups include Christians, Yazidis, Shabaks, Turkmen, and Sabean-Mandaeans. The Islamic State’s advances in 2014, paired with the political and economic crises that have bedevilled Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government, exacerbated communal relationships among the communities who have been living in the North of Iraq and may incite new tensions if left unchecked. The Middle East Research Institute (MERI), in conjunction with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) seeks to examine intra- and inter- relationships among those minority groups as well as their relations with both The Central Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Middle East Economic Outlook

MERI’s Economic Outlook provides updates and analysis on the latest economic developments in Iraq and the broader Middle East.

Baghdad-Erbil agreement on oil and budget: deepening Iraq’s federalism?

Iraq’s federal budget: some insights