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Center for Kirkuk Referendum Operations

Georgetown University Center for Kirkuk Referendum Operations

Academic Research

2012 Kirkuk Status Referendum Operational Concept

Updated: November 2012.  Operational Concept for Kirkuk and Other Disputed Territories Status Referendum.  Center for Kirkuk Referendum Operations, Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Georgetown University

 

 

Archive: Kirkuk and Other Disputed Territories Status Referendum: Updated Operational Concept

Archive: May 2011 Operational Concept for Kirkuk Status Referendum.  Center for Kirkuk Referendum Operations, Georgetown University

 

 

Archive: Kirkuk and Other Disputed Territories Status Referendum Operational Concept 

Archive: Fall 2010 International Electoral Policy and Practice, Georgetown University

 

 

Voter Eligibility, Identification, and Registration in Iraq: Defining the Electorate Issues and Options

Jeff Fischer, Project Director

 

 

Referenda Elections and Governance in Iraq: Issues and Options for 2007 

Jeff Fischer, Project Director

 

 

Iraq's Disputed Territories: A View of the Political Horizon and Implications for US Policy

Sean Kane, The United States Institute for Peace

 

Iraq and the Kurds Confronting Withdrawal Fears 

The International Crisis Group

 

 Finding Common Ground: Kirkuk as a Special Governorate

Sean Kane, The United States Institute for Peace

 

Preventing Arab-Kurd Conflict in Iraq after the Withdrawal of U.S. Force

Emma Sky, The United States Institute for Peace, Peacebrief

 

Wrestling with the Integrity of a Nation: The Disputed Internal Boundaries in Iraq

Peter Bartu, International Affairs 86: 6 (2010) 1329–1343

 

Who Owns Kirkuk? The Turkoman Case

Yücel Güçlü, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2007

 

Democracy and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Iraq

Andreas Wimmer, Professor of Sociology, UCLA

 

The Status of Kirkuk under Article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution: The Need for Adjudication by the Iraqi Supreme Court as Part of an Integrated Solution

Cynthia A. Bolden and Jerrod Fussnecker

 

Governing (in) Kirkuk: resolving the status of a disputed territory in post-American Iraq

Stefan Wolff, International Affairs 86:6 (2010) 1361-1379

 

Interethnic relations in Northern Iraq: Brokerage, social capital and the potential for reconciliation

Jens Rydgren and Dana Sofi, International Sociology 26: 1 (2011) 25-49

 

Article 140: Iraq’s Constitution, Kirkuk and the Disputed Territories

Brendan O’Leary (with David Bateman), Paper for the Conference at Rayburn House, Washington D.C. May 9 2008.

 

 

 

 

What is CKRO?

The Center for Kirkuk Referendum Operations (CKRO) is a collaborative initiative of the Center for Democracy and Society at Georgetown University.  A policy institute and professional network, CKRO seeks to enable a successful vote in Iraq and refine the model for status referenda worldwide.

Contact Us

You can contact the Center at any time via email at CKRO@georgetown.edu.

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