TY - BOOK ID - 135620453 TI - Managing Arab-Kurd tensions in Northern Iraq after the withdrawal of U.S. troops AU - Hanauer, Larry. AU - Martini, Jeffrey. AU - Al-Shahery, Omar. AU - National Defense Research Institute (U.S.) AU - Rand Corporation. PY - 2011 PB - Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, DB - UniCat KW - Arabs KW - Kurds KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Disengagement (Military science) KW - Peace. KW - Iraq KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135620453 AB - To help U.S. policymakers prepare for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in late 2011, this paper presents options for mitigating the risks of Arab-Kurd conflict and suggests mechanisms through which U.S. government entities -- both civilian and military -- could work to alleviate tensions in northern Iraq. The authors discuss the feasibility of a range of confidence-building measures that could help Arabs and Kurds build trust and avoid conflicts that might derail peaceful efforts to resolve Iraq's fundamental political challenges. They conclude that such efforts are unlikely to contain Arab-Kurd violence over the long-term absent a national-level agreement regarding federalism, the legal and political status of disputed territories, and the management of oil and gas resources. However, by managing local disputes, confidence-building measures may be able to prevent violence long enough for Iraq's politicians to resolve these broader issues. ER -