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In Pawn: Kurdish Economic Development In The Context Of Conflict, Stephen E. Mcavene Iii
In Pawn: Kurdish Economic Development In The Context Of Conflict, Stephen E. Mcavene Iii
Sustainability and Social Justice
In this paper the author examines the struggle of the Kurdish people for self-determined social, political, and economic development in the whirlwind of conflict in the Middle East. It uses a case study of how a Kurdish minority in Iraq interact with multiple stakeholders in their struggle for nationhood, and implications of these interactions for overall Kurdish social and economic development. Studies on economic development while interested in social, economic and political aspect of development, are less concerned with the implications of right to self-determination on development; the unique case of the Kurdish struggle provides an opportunity to expand the …