Institutionalizing the Peshmerga Forces: steps and obstructions

Abstract

The initial aim of the research is to explain the level and efforts of the process of construction and institutionalization of the Peshmerga forces within one professional national force based on national and military principle. Because without this national force and its reconstruction within national establishment the process of democracy transference and political stability would not be achieved on one hand, on the other hand without an institutionalized defenses capability and Kurdistan security would be difficult to achieve. This research studies the local, Iraqi, and international attempts that made in order to institutionalize the Peshmerga, as well as it studies the difficulties and obstacles that hinder this process at the both levels of Kurdistan Region and Iraq.