The International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV) is pleased to announce the publication of its new Focus Section:

Geopolitical Shifts and Ethnic Conflicts: The Transnational Kurdish Conflict in the Contemporary Middle East
guest edited by Arzu Yilmaz and Gülistan Gürbey.

The Focus Section includes eight articles:

The Road to Sèvres: Kurdish Elites and Question of Self-Determination After the First World War
by Metin Atmaca

Margins of Allegiance and Revolt: Relations between Kurdish Tribes and the State from the Late Ottoman Period to the Early Modern Republic
by Yalçin Çakmak und Tuncay Sur

Path Dependence from Proxy Agent to De Facto State: A History of ‘Strategic Exploitation’ of the Kurds as a Context of the Iraqi Kurdistan Security Policy
by Piotr Sosnowski

“They Hear Us But They Do Not Listen to Us”: Youth Narratives on Hope and Despair in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
by Bahar Baser und Shivan Fazil

Rethinking Internal Colonialism: Radicalization of the Kurdish Movement in Turkey
by Baris Tugrul

Kurdish Parallel Justice and Alternative Governmentality
by Latif Tas

The Politics of Negotiating the Kurdish Self-Determination Conflict: Failure by Design?
by Naif Bezwan

Civic Culture and Support for Democracy amongst Kurds in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey
by Dastan Jasim

as well as a Guest Editorial by Gülistan Gürbey und Arzu Yilmaz.

The editors of the IJCV would like to thank
- the Guest Editors for initiating this Focus and for their tireless efforts in finding reviewers and guiding authors,
- the authors for their patient work on their manuscripts,
- the anonymous reviewers for numerous tips on how to improve the contributions,
- and finally our copy editor, Med Dale, for his, as always, critical but reliable scrutiny of the final version of the manuscripts.

On behalf of the IJCV

Felicitas Wagner and Kurt Salentin

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