Section: Research Student Profiles

Shamiran Mako

Name
Shamiran Mako
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
3.12, Crystal Macmillan Building Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
E-Mail
Research Interests
Ethnic conflict,State formation,Governing in divided societies,Post-conflict peacebuilding
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/shamiran_mako
Shamiran Mako

 

 

Qualifications

  • MA (Political Science), Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
  • Honours BA (Political Science and International Relations), York University, Toronto, Canada 

PhD Working Title

Governing Iraq: Explaining the Limits of Institutional Design and Ethnic Conflict Management in a Divided Society 

Research Interestst

Broadly, my research aims to analytically apply historical institutionalism to the study of governing in divided societies, with a focus on Iraq in order to draw causal links between the role of institutions in reproducing a divided society. This study is interested in the development and evolution of institutions as key variables in shaping the politics of exclusion and fragmentation.  In other words, how institutions become a source of contestation that produce or, in some cases, reinforce exclusionary structures that foster ethnic conflict in divided societies. 

 

Supervisors

Dr. Adham Saouli and Dr. Wilfried Swenden

 

Publications   

Mako, S. (Forthcoming, 2012). "Cultural Genocide and Key International Instruments: Framing the Indigenous Experience", International Journal of Minority and Group Rights.

Mako, S. (2010). "Peshmerga Fighters," ABC-CLIO, Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East Wars.

Mako, S. and Donabed, S. (2010). "Colonialism in the Middle East," ABC-CLIO World Hisory Encyclopedia.

 

Conferences

Workshop Observer, Iraq's New Reality: Sectarianism, Minorities, and Other Social and Political Issues, Center for Intenrational Governance and Innovation (CIGI), (June, 2009), Waterloo, Canada.

Panel Organizer and Paper Presenter: Right of Return in Transitional Iraq: Normative and Legal Implications, Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, (November, 2008), Washington, DC.

Paper Presenter, Cultural Rights and Minorities Under Ba'athist Iraq, Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, (November, 2007), Montreal, Canada.

Paper Presenter, Seminar on The Right of Return: Legal, Normative, and Comparative Perspectives, University of Toronto Munk Center for International Studies, (May, 2007), Toronto, Canada.

 

Tutoring Experience 

Fall 2006, Globalization and Development, Wilfrid Laurier University

 

Research Group Memberships 

American Political Science Association  

International Relations

Territorial Politics

Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 

 

 

 

 

This page was published on 15 May 2012


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