How the Yazidi perceive the Responsibility to Protect and the Actions of the International Community
Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – October 10th, 2020 – The American University of Kurdistan’s Center for Peace and Human Security (CPHS) has published a study (After Genocide: How the Yazidi Perceive the Responsibility to Protect and the Actions of the International Community) funded by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS).
In her research report, AUK’s Assistant Professor, Dr. Kerstin Tomiak, concludes that besides a pacification and conciliation between the Yazidi Community and those perceived as enablers of the genocide campaign by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the International Community alongside the governments of Iraq and Kurdistan Region must have the responsibility to rebuild Sinjar and help the Yazidi to restore their livelihoods. Therefore, Dr. Tomiak refers to “The Responsibility to Protect (R2P)”, a global political commitment endorsed by all United Nations member states in 2015.
For the research, Dr. Tomiak interviewed 28 Yazidi women to explore, at first hand, how the Yazidi community perceives the International Community’s actions to protect the group.
“My research was done with five of our AUK students, among others; the project did not only make a publication possible but also provided employment and educational opportunities for AUK students.” stated the Assistant Professor of AUK’s Center for Peach and Human Security. “I am deeply impressed and grateful to all five of them, who worked reliably and gathered data under really trying and challenging circumstances,” she added.
Six years after the Yazidi community in northern Iraq was targeted by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and subjected to a genocidal campaign, the survivors of the genocide still cannot return to their ancient home of Sinjar but live mostly in the Dohuk-Governorate in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq.
In her research report, AUK’s Assistant Professor, Dr. Kerstin Tomiak, concludes that besides a pacification and conciliation between the Yazidi Community and those perceived as enablers of the genocide campaign by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the International Community alongside the governments of Iraq and Kurdistan Region must have the responsibility to rebuild Sinjar and help the Yazidi to restore their livelihoods. Therefore, Dr. Tomiak refers to “The Responsibility to Protect (R2P)”, a global political commitment endorsed by all United Nations member states in 2015.
For the research, Dr. Tomiak interviewed 28 Yazidi women to explore, at first hand, how the Yazidi community perceives the International Community’s actions to protect the group.
“My research was done with five of our AUK students, among others; the project did not only make a publication possible but also provided employment and educational opportunities for AUK students.” stated the Assistant Professor of AUK’s Center for Peach and Human Security. “I am deeply impressed and grateful to all five of them, who worked reliably and gathered data under really trying and challenging circumstances,” she added.
Six years after the Yazidi community in northern Iraq was targeted by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and subjected to a genocidal campaign, the survivors of the genocide still cannot return to their ancient home of Sinjar but live mostly in the Dohuk-Governorate in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq.