This blog presents the outcomes of a recent study that examined school leadership in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq (KRI). The study took place in five schools and analysed senior leaders’ perspectives and practices of social justice education by drawing on John Smyth scholarship of socially just and socially critical leadership.
In the shadow of grave injustices that continue to affect Iraq as a result of decades of war and insecurity, one reality remains staggering: the repeated conflicts in Iraq have particularly left a profound impact on its women, especially those who had to endure unspeakable horrors during ISIS’s invasion of Mosul and the Nineveh Plain in 2014.
