Our Mission
Our advisory board  and editors  include scholars and experts on democracy from around the world. The materials are intended to be used by a variety of organizations in Iraq that are working on democracy-building and human rights, including women and student groups, professional associations, universities, the media, and democracy-promotion programs run by international NGOs

Our International Advisory Board Members

Ammar Abdulhamid
Founder, Tharwa Project (Damascus)

Hayder Abdulkarim
Iraq Director,
World Conference for Religion and Peace (Baghdad)

Akbar S. Ahmed
Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies,
American University (Washington, D.C.)

Munther al-Fadhal
Special Advisor to the Prime Minister,
Kurdistan Regional Government (Irbil)

Hashim al-Jazairy
Dean, Basra School of Law

Carole Basri
Adjunct Professor of Law,
University of Pennsylvania

Larry Diamond
Co-Editor, Journal of Democracy,
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute (California)

Mohammad Fadhil
Founder,
Friends of Democracy (Baghdad)

Shafeeq N. Ghabra
President,American University of Kuwait

Faleh Jaber
Director,
Iraq Institute for Strategic Studies (London)

Jo Kwong
Director of Institute Relations,
Atlas Economic Research Foundation (Virginia)

Mary Larkin
Director, International Programs,
Street Law (Virginia)

Hassan Mneimneh
Vice President
The Iraq Memory Foundation (Baghdad)

Khaleel Mohammed
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies,
San Diego State University

Tom Palmer
Senior Fellow, Cato Institute,
Director, Cato University (Washington, D.C.)

Walid Phares
Professor of Middle East Studies, Florida Atlantic University

 Robert Rabil
Visiting Professor of Political Science,
Florida Atlantic University

Lawrence Reed
President,
Mackinac Center for Public Policy

Abdul Aziz Sachedina
Professor of Religious Studies,
University of Virginia

Bridgett Wagner
Director of Coalition Relations,
Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)