Iraq’s PMF Integration Paradox: Competing Visions for a Future Within the Iraqi State
Twelve years after its creation, Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) sits at the centre of the country’s security, political, and welfare architecture. This means that DDR, currently the subject of renewed debate, presents a distinct challenge. Many of the PMF’s constituent armed groups are willing to accept disarmament, but on differing terms, including their degree of commitment to wider resistance networks.
In this expert comment, Dr Inna Rudolf argues that reform proposals should not treat the PMF only as a security actor and should look towards gradual reform of PMF governance structures.
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