Crisis States Programme Forum
Crisis in Iraq

Following the war in Iraq, fears mount about the uncertain future of the Iraqi people and the serious implications of this conflict not just for the Middle East, but the entire world. The Crisis States Programme wishes to stimulate the debate around the war itself, the future prospects for Iraq and its eventual recovery, and the wider consequences that this will have.

The following contributions have been received:

On The Death Toll in Iraq since 1990
by Tim Dyson (December 2006)

Why Iraq? Why now?
by Richard Eaton (February 2003)
A widely-repeated mantra in the Bush Administration has it that "The road to Middle East peace goes through Baghdad." What would this peace look like, and why does the road to it have to go through Baghdad? This article exposes the underlying objectives and interests that are defining the determination of the US government to go to war with Iraq.

The Best of Enemies
by David Keen (February 2003)

The White House and the PMO Fail to Make the case for War on Iraq
Appendix 1: PMO Dossier
by James Putzel (February 2003)
This paper suggests that the arguments and ‘evidence’ mustered by President Bush and Prime Minister Blair have amounted to unproven affirmations, based on hastily prepared documents containing little solid recent intelligence information and, as proven in the case of the PMO’s latest dossier, plagiarised material. They have failed to make a case for a war that, if unleashed, is bound to cause the death of tens of thousands of Iraqis, suffering of hundreds of thousands more and almost certain increased political instability in the region and far beyond.
 

We would like to invite you to make a contribution yourself, whether in the form of a short article or statement. You should e-mail these to the Crisis States Research Centre. We will include on this website as many of these as possible, in order to push the debate forwards.