Kamaran Palani is the Principal Investigator of the Iraq PeaceRep programme at the LSE Middle East Centre. Kamaran also conducts research on the drivers of conflict and state fragmentation in Iraq.
His research broadly focuses on de facto statehood, power-sharing, and dynamics of peace and conflict, with a specific focus on Iraq. Kamaran's work also explores a range of interconnected themes, including the prevention of violent extremism, internal displacement, the roles of youth and civil society, educational initiatives, and the situation of ethno-religious minorities in Iraq. Kamaran has published his research in journals such as Territory, Politics, Governance; International Peacekeeping; Third World Quarterly; Ethnopolitics; British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; and International Migration. He is also the author of the book Kurdistan’s De Facto Statehood: A New Explanatory Framework (Routledge, 2022).
He obtained his MA in Global Security from Keele University, UK, in 2014, and completed his PhD at Leiden University in the Netherlands in 2021.