| Description | Box of Omar Sheikhmous's writings from the 1990s, including handwritten notes on papers given at a Conference on International Law and Humanitarian Intervention - with notes on Sheikhmous' paper "The legal bases of recognition of Kurdish right to some form of self-determination (n.d., 1990s), a typescript of a short paper by OS entitled 'Scarse [sic] water resources as a strategic weapon or cause of future large-scale conflicts in the Middle East' (1990s), draft typescript article by OS on a unified Kurdish language (Kurdish, 1990?), handwritten notes by OS on (de-)radicalisation (English, 1990?), a research report on the reception of Kurdish refugees in Sweden (Swedish, 1990), New factors in the Strategies and geopolitical Situation in Kurdistan (1990), a typescript of an unpublished short paper by OS and Stefan Hjerten 'Syria and the Kurdish question' (1991), The Kurds and the peace process in the Middle East (1991), Iraq (Ruta 1) (Swedish, 1991), Typescript of a conference paper 'The Kurds in exile' by Birgit Amman, OS and two others, given at Hasseludden near Stockholm (1991), An outline for a parliamentary motion in Swedish (1991), a copy of the Danish magazine Kontakt (September 1991) with article by OS on p.27, Paper by OS on 'The Kurdish Question and the regional peace process in the Middle East' for the Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt/Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (1991), The Kurdish Question in regional Politics; possible peace Solutions (1991?), An article on Kurdish politics written for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (1991), Kurder I Sverige [On the Kurds in Sweden] (Swedish, 1991?), Typescript of a pamphlet on the Kurdish struggle for autonomy (Swedish, 1991), On the 19th of May Election Iraqi Kurdistan (Swedish, 1992), Kurdish refugees and international systems (1992), A persecuted people (Swedish, 1992), Internal Conflict and Governance (1992), Article on nationalism in the Middle East (Arabic, 1992), Article by OS on Turkey and Kurdistan for the periodical Azadîya Welat (Kurdish, 1992), 'Nationalisme i den arabiske verden och i Mellemøsten' / 'al-Qadaya al-qawmiyah fi al-watan al-`arabi wa-al-Sharq al-Awsat (1992, Danish and Arabic, from Al-Hayat newspaper), Handwritten paper [by OS] entitled "Kurdish history and geographical distribution" (1992), The Kurdish question (1992), a photocopied article in Sorani Kurdish from Kurdistan Nwê (1993), The Kurds and the new world order (Swedish and English, 1993) Proposal by OS for a report on the situation of Kurdish children in Kurdistan (1993), Human rights in Kurdish Society and within Kurdish movements (1993), In the mind of the long time emigrant in Sweden (1993), An article on Kurdish politics written for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (1993), Copy of Journal Berbang (August 1993) with OS article on pp.10-11, a copy of an article by OS on the Kurdish language published in Kurdistanî Nwê (1994), Observation from a recent trip to Iraqi Kurdistan (1994), Kurdish question in Turkey/Turkeys achilles heel (Swedish, 1994), Introduction by OS for a book on Nureddin Zaza (Kurdish, 1994), The Kurdish Question: Conflict Resolution Strategies at the Regional Level, from Elise Boulding (ed.), 'Building peace in Middle East' (1994), Notes on Kurdish political parties in Iraq, Syria and Iran, and in more detail on Syria (English and Swedish, 1994), Article by OS, Khaled Salih & Borhan Yassin entitled "A tragedy in the making in Iraqi Kurdistan" (not published by Washington Post) (1994), The self made tragedy in Iraqi Kurdistan (English, Arabic and Swedish, 1995), Paper by OS on 'Conflict dynamics and human rights in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan' delivered to a seminar in Oslo (1995), Background information (by OS?) for American military personnel on politics in Iraqi Kurdistan (1996?), Typescript paper by OS entitled 'Förändringar i religiositeten bland tre invandrargrupper i Sverige' (1996?), a copy of 'Kurdistan Heute' magazine (December 1996) with an article in German by OS pp.8-14, a list of articles published by Sheikhmous between 1988 and 1996 (Swedish and English, 1996), Water dispute and ethnic Conflicts in The Middle East; the case of Kurds (English, 1997, for 'Contrasts and Solutions in the Middle East' with two offprints), Photocopy of the introduction by OS to a book [by Ibrahim Ahmad?] (1997), Printout of a paper by OS entitled "Factors for cooperation and conflict in Southern Kurdistan" published in Incore (1997), Future prospect for the Kurds (Swedish, 1998), a folder of material on Iraq for a seminar in 1998 (in Swedish, English, Arabic and Kurdish), The Kurdish refugee exodus from Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan (1998), Features of the history of the Kurds and their Political position in the World (1998), Advice to new refugees in Sweden (1998), Internationalization of the Kurdish question after Halabje (1998), The Kurdish refugees exodus from Iraqi and Turkish Kurdistan (1998), Handwritten Lectures On the Middle East (Kurdish, 1998), Ethnic awakening among young Kurds in Europe (Swedish, 1998), Remarks at the WKI conflict resolution forum (1998), Raising standards in Kurdish politics (Kurdish, 1998), Handwritten and typed notes on Information on Kurdistan (Kurdish, Swedish, English,1998), The Necessity of Re-introducing Higher Moral Standards into Kurdish Politics again (1998), Future problems for the Kurds (Swedish, 1998), Article by OS in al-Hayat (1998), an article in German on intra- and inter-Kurdish conflict (1999), Conditions for establishing democracy in Kurdish Society (Swedish, 1999) for the journal 'Havibun', Crystallization of a new Diaspora migration and political culture among the Kurds in Europe (1999), Intra-Kurdish relations of Kurds of Iraq with Kurds of other parts of Kurdistan (1999) and an abstract for a talk given at a conference on Migration and Cultura in Ammann in 1999. There is also a series of three applications from 1991 for a research project on Kurdish nationalism, and a proposal for an international conference in 1997 (accompanied by Sheikhmous' notes on Kurdistan Week in Berlin from 1989). Lastly, there is a copy of Issue no 3 (1998) of the periodical 'Kontrakt' accompanied by a handwritten draft by Sheikhmous for an agreement between Kontract and the MSDC of Uppsala, along with two copies of the agreement with Sheikhmous' annotations. |