Iraq Assessment — Activity Summary

IRIS provided an expert, Dr. Phebe Marr, to USAID to offer analysis, technical advice and operational recommendations for USAID’s review of selected aspects of Iraqi policy.

The assessment was to focus on four issues critical to the reconstruction and transformation of Iraq: (1) potential human rights abuses stemming from retribution and revenge, (2) the expansion of a shadow economy, (3) the atomization of the Iraqi state along ethnic and religious divisions and (4) the reconstitution of remnants of Hussein regime’s security forces into criminal organizations. However, rapid change in the situation in Iraq truncated the activities needed.

Dr. Marr analyzed and made recommendations on atomization of the Iraqi state along ethnic and religious divisions, and the reconstitution of remnants of Hussein regime’s security forces into criminal organizations respectively.