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Renad Mansour is research fellow with Middle East and North Africa Program at Chatham House and visiting fellow at Institute for Regional and International Studies at American University of Iraq-Sulaimani... ..

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The headlines from Baghdad may be filled with violence and mayhem, and Sermid Al-Sarraf sees Iraq beginning to bloom land reform the penal code and train judges and lawyers human rights and international law.. ..

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