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Shivan Fazil
Researcher
Shivan Fazil
Shivan Fazil is a Researcher in the SIPRI Middle East and North Africa Programme. His work focuses on conflict analysis, building resilience and social cohesion and promoting the rights of ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq, where he worked for over 5 years with various governmental and non-governmental organizations. His research interests include democracy and governance, gender and youth, particularly in Iraq, Turkey and Iran.
Prior to joining SIPRI, he worked as project specialist with the United States Institute of Peace, senior policy officer with Oxfam GB, and director of communications and research assistant at the Middle East Research Institute. As an Iraq analyst, he is a regular commentator in the international press on the political and security dynamics in Iraq and the challenges for stabilization and governance after the military defeat of ISIS.
Subject expertise
Conflict Analysis, Peacebuilding, Stabilization
Regional expertise
Middle East, Turkey and Iran
Languages
English, Kurdish, Arabic
Education
MSc in Middle East Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Citizenship
Iraq
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Iraq in 2023: Challenges and prospects for peace and human security (Topical backgrounder, )
- Cultural reconstruction is critical after Islamic State occupation (Essay, )
- The resurgence of the Islamic State in Iraq: Political and military responses (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : April 2022)
- Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Agriculture, Cultural Practices and Social Cohesion (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2022)
- Reform within the System: Governance in Iraq and Lebanon (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Fixing the Economy and Public Service Provision in Iraq (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Protest and State–Society Relations in the Middle East and North Africa (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2020)
External publications
- Palani, K. and Fazil, S., Fluid State-Building in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Taking Advantage of the 2003 U.S.-Led Invasion, International Peacekeeping (July 2023)
- Fazil, S., Addressing challenges to tolerance and religious diversity in Iraq, Middle East Institute (July 2023)
- Fazil, S., Integrating Culture into Return Migration Programming, Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (Feb. 2023)
- Fazil, S. and Baser, B., “They Hear Us But They Do Not Listen to Us”:Youth Narratives on Hope and Despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, International Journal of Conflict and Violence (Dec. 2022)
- Fazil, S., Iraq’s new government must deliver results quickly, or fall, The New Arab (Nov. 2022)
- Fazil, S., O’Driscoll, D., Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq, NUPI and SIPRI (April 2022)
- Fazil, S. and O’Driscoll, D., Why Climate Change Will Exacerbate Inequalities and Grievances in Iraq, New Security Beat (May 2022)
- O’Driscoll, D., Fazil, S., Ardovini, L., Maddah M., and Bourhrous, A., Reimagining the Social Contract in Iraq (May 2022)
- Fazil, S., Protests in the MENA: cultural narratives and social upward mobility in 'Middle Eastern and Mediterranean lives: Rethinking mobility in a time of immobility', Università della Svizzera italiana (2022)
- Fazil, S., The Political Marginalisation of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Iraq in 'Suffering, Perseverance, and Hope: Minority Voices from the Middle East and North Africa', Manara Magazine (March 2022)
- Fazil, S., Government Formation in Gridlock while Iraq Faces an Array of Challenges, LSE Blog (Feb. 2022)
- Fazil, S. and O’Driscoll, D., Iraqis go to the polls on October 10. What happens next? | View, Euronews (Oct. 2021)
- Fazil, S. and Baser, B., Youth Identity, Politics and Change in Contemporary Kurdistan, Peace, Conflict and Violence Series: 1, Transnational Press London (Sep. 2021)
- O'Driscoll, D. and Fazil, S., Minorities, Cultural Practices, and Destruction by the Islamic State - Tal Keif and Hamdaniya, LASER PULSE Program, Purdue University (June 2020)
- Fazil, S., Protesters are facing Iranian influence in Iraq, Iran International (Oct. 2019)
- Fazil, S., Iraqi Kurdistan’s parliamentary elections: Inflection point or plateau?, Rafik Hariri Center for Middle East, Atlantic Council (Oct. 2018)
- Fazil, S., Turkey’s snap elections: a level playing field?, Open Democracy (May 2018)
- Fazil, S., Mosul: the looming battle has begun, Open Democracy (Nov. 2016)