Iraq Project
The Public International Law & Policy Group’s Iraq Project seeks to provide legal assistance with resolving a number of contentious issues facing the new Iraqi government. These issues include the allocation of oil resources, the retention of the Kurdish Peshmerga as a regional protection force, the resolution of property claims, and the drafting of a new constitution. To facilitate the provision of this assistance, PILPG has held a series of expert roundtables to identify the most pressing issues, has run a series of negotiation simulations to test various solutions, and has prepared a number of legal memorandum outlining potential models from which the Iraqi government can design workable solutions.
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Roundtable Reports
Legal Memoranda
Negotiation Simulation Reports
Roundtable Reports
PILPG occasionally hosts roundtables on timely topics, often in collaboration with other institutions. In May 2003, PILPG and The Century Foundation convened a roundtable of experts to discuss issues that must be addressed in order to build a stable democratic constitutional structure in Iraq. The roundtable resulted in a report that aims to help navigate the complexities of the constitution building process by providing analysis and recommendations on the various state structures and processes by which states have sought to achieve both stability and democracy when faced with a diversity of ethnic and religious interests.
Establishing a Stable Democratic Constitutional Structure in Iraq: Some Basic Considerations
Legal Memoranda
PILPG is collaborating with several law firms to prepare an array of memoranda that will serve as step-by-step guides for constructing the various components of a functional government: executive, legislature, judiciary, electoral system, and human rights. Additionally, legal memoranda will be prepared on pivotal post-conflict transitional justice issues for Iraq.
Constitutional Issues
Post-Conflict Nation-Building Issues
Negotiation Simulation Reports
During Spring 2004, the Iraq Project, in cooperation with American University, ran a series of diplomacy simulation exercises on negotiating a permanent constitution for Iraq. The negotiation simulation was run with participants from various Iraqi constituencies, the U.S. government, academia, and policy organizations. For Fall 2004, PILPG intends to run a series of simulations relating to the allocation of oil revenue, military reconstruction, and the resolution of property claims.
Iraq: Negotiating a New Constitution (overview)
Iraq: Negotiating an Equitable Allocation of Oil Resources
For other diplomacy simulations exercises on other current conflicts areas around the globe: http://www.publicinternationallaw.org/programs/sovereignty/diplomacy
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