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Bayar Mustafa Sevdeen, PhD

Dean of External Engagement and Research

Overview

Dr. Bayar Mustafa is the Dean of External Engagement and Research at the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH). He holds PhD in Contemporary History from Mosul University in 2009 and granted his Post- doctorate research in 2015 from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Istanbul Bilgi University. Dr. Bayar served as a diplomat in “Turkey Division” at the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2013. He worked for the American University of Kurdistan (AUK) as an Assistant Professor and researcher at the College of International Studies from (2014 to 2019). He is also AHDA fellow at the Institute of the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. and since November, 2019, he is a Non-Resident Scholar, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

Dr. Bayar’s wider research interests are history, regional and international politics of the Middle East with a focus on Kurdish politics in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, as well as Kurdistan region domestic politics and the relations between diverse groups. He published four books, and lately pushed a book entitled “Beyond ISIS: The Future of Religious Minorities in Iraq” with a colleague.

Dr. Bayar has extensive research experience on the domestic, regional and international consequences of the emergence of IS in Iraq and Syria. He conducted and engaged to numerous of research projects on Yazidi’s genocide and another minorities status in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq and Syria. He is also principle investigator in ongoing projects focusing Yazidi and other religious groups in the Middle East in collaboration with LSE and UCF.

Education

  • - PhD., Modern History University of Mosul
  • - MA Modern History University of Dohuk
  • - BA History University of Dohuk

Publications

Unaccomplished Unity: The future of the KRG - Rojava relations in post IS era, Everyday Resistance of Kurds And Palestinians: Countering Domination via Nonviolent Means, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University, Coventry, 22-23 June, 2018.
Towards New Security Arrangements for the MENA Region - Sharq Forum, Istanbul, Turkey, May 5-7, 2018.
Trauma of Sinjar: Historical memory and the borders of Yazidi’s Identity, International Academic Conference on Identities and Otherness in Period of Crisis, Department of History and Ethnology DUTH – Laboratory of Folklore Studies and Social Anthropology, University of Thrace, Greece, May 18-20, 2018.
The Changing Dynamics of Kurdish Politics in the Post-ISIS Era, The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, April 30,2018.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Changing Dynamics of Kurdish Politics in Post-ISIS Era, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, April 26, 2018.
KRI and Iran: Possibilities of cooperation and risks of conflict, The International Conference on Kurdish Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, Exeter, 26-27, June, 2017.

Professional Qualification

  • - Assistant professor College of International Studies, The American University of Kurdistan, Iraq
  • - Founder Member Besikci Center for Kurdish Studies,University of Dohuk
  • - AHAD Fellow The Institute for the Study of Human Rights, SIPA, Columbia University NY, USA
  • - Researcher Center for Peace and Human Security (CPHS) at the American University of Kurdistan (AUK)
  • - Researcher The International Middle East Peace Research Center (IMPR), Ankara, Turkey

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