Title:Iraq’s Disputed Territories
Author: Sean Kane
Place of publication: USA
Publisher: First published
Release date: 2011.

his report could not have been conceived of, much
less written, without the factual information and
primary evidence gathered over the space of several
years of painstaking effort by dozens of former
and current staff members at the United Nations
Assistance Mission for Iraq. The author wishes to
salute their exceptional work in difficult and often
dangerous circumstances. He would also like to
thank several individuals at the United States Institute
of Peace and in the United States government for
reviewing this report and providing thoughtful and
insightful feedback.
The analytical judgments contained in the document,
as well as any remaining errors or inaccuracies, are
solely the author’s responsibility. The author realizes
the sensitivity and emotion attached to the territorial
disputes in Iraq and the legacies of conflict and
discrimination addressed in this report. The annexes
summarize the evidence used for the analysis in the
main text so that readers are free to examine the
relevant data for themselves, consider differing conclusions, or argue that alternative factors should have
been used to imagine what a negotiated solution to
the disputed territories might look like. The report’s
ultimate aim is to stimulate a concrete discussion on
how this long-running and often tragic dispute can be
resolved peacefully. [1]