The HSC's Director argues that we don’t want to look back a decade from now and wonder how we lost the Kurds.

Campaigners have marched through the streets of London to protest against recent attacks on Iraqis and Syrians by ISIS militants. Hundreds of people gathered outside BBC Broadcasting House before marching through Oxford Street towards the US Embassy. Demonstrators, led by ...

On 13th August, 2014, the Human Security Centre’s Executive Director, Julie Lenarz, was invited by Channel 4 News to discuss the Yezidi situation in Iraq and the way forward.

The recent declaration of a Caliphate by IS (Islamic State, formally ISIS) could have huge security ramifications throughout the Middle East. In territory captured in both Syria and Iraq by IS, the Islamic State has blurred the borders, leaving the potential for a break-up of an increasingly unstable Iraq an ever growing possibility.

Guest Contributor: Robert Halfon MP 20th January 2014 Robert recently visited Kurdistan in Northern Iraq with the All-Party Kurdistan Group.  In this article he describes the three challenges facing the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). When people ask me if the Iraq ...

The recent Halabja commemoration proves that the ‘three Rs’ of remembrance, recognition and retelling are not enough. ‘Never again’ must become ‘always prevent’.‘From Denial To Recognition. From Destruction To Construction.

Guest Contributor: Kenny Stevenson 28th August 2013 ‘Was the price too high?’ asked Kirsty Wark. ‘Of course the price is very, very high’, replied Tony, ‘but think of the price people paid before Saddam was removed’. Defiant as ever, Blair strolled ...

Guest Contributor:  Advisory Board Member Peter Watt 5th August 2013 There has been an awful lot of noise again recently about Iraq. The overall sense was that in deciding to commit British forces in the second Iraq war Tony Blair had ...

Two experiences stand out from my recent visit to the Kurdistan Region in Iraq: meeting refugees fleeing Syria at the Domiz refugee camp; and seeing a weeping son uncovering the body of his father, Mohammed Serspi, murdered by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1980s.

Damian Counsell interviews Julie Lenarz, the Executive Director. Their wide-ranging conversation covers her recent visit to Iraqi Kurdistan to mark the 25th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s genocidal actions against its people; why the survivors viewed Allied action as a liberation; the surprising ...