Academics | Dr. Dilshad H. Khdihir

·         Research and Staff Development Manager, May 2016-October 2017, BCF, Erbil, KRI

·         Project Coordinator, March 2015-Decemebr 2015, QANDIL, Erbil, KRI

·         Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Salahaddin University, 2011-2013

·         Part-time lecturer, the University of Nottingham, UK, 2009-2010

·         Freelance Public Translator, 2004-2010, various employers, UK

1-      Kurdish (Native)

2-      English

3-      Arabic

4-      Persian

• 1-      Kurdish politics, identity & nationalism

  2-      Humanitarian work in Iraq

  3-      Social policy in KRI

  4-      Middle East politics (Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria)

·         International Organizations

·         Religion & Politics

·         International Relations

·         Basics of Sociology

·         International Negotiation & Mediation

·         Civil Society & Democracy

May 2018

Initiating and successfully supervising a project to translate into Kurdish language the Sphere Project’s Handbook ‘the Humanitarian Charter and the Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response’. Grant provided by Barzani Charity Foundation

April 2-4 2018

Chairing the international conference on Science Management & Religious Diversity, held at Tishk International University in collaboration with the German Potsdam University, the Catholic University in Erbil and Salahaddin University

October 7^th 2017

Organizing a joint symposium on ‘Fostering Social Cohesion: A New Phase of Humanitarian Work in the Kurdistan Region’, between Tishk International University and Barzani Charity Foundation

1-      Chair, International Conference on Science Management, Religion & Diversity, Tishk International University 2-4 April 2018

2-      Chair, Symposium on ‘Social Cohesion in the Kurdistan Region’, Tishk International Univeristy, October 2018

3-      Presenter, ‘Kurds and the complex of statelessness’, the Third Lalish Conference, American University of Kurdistan, Duhok, KRI, April 2017

4-      Presenter,  ‘Towards Kurdish Identity and Independency in the Edge of Globalization’ conference, Sulaimani University, May 2016

Humanitarian Work in the Kurdistan Region: Historical Developments and New Challenges, Book chapter, September 2017 in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region: A Path Forward Beyond Territorial Spaces: Kurdish Nationalism in a Globalized World, March 2009, Global Politics: An International Affairs Magazine for the Next Generation Kurds in American Foreign Policy Discourse, September 2007, Youth and Democracy E.Journal, 1