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[karwan]

We are delighted to announce the first annual symposium, ‘Kurdistan’s Oil and Gas: Curse or Blessing ?’ to be held at Soran University, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The symposium will take place at Soran University on the 21stand 22nd April 2014.

All evidence suggests that a resource rich developing nation is most likely to stagnate in its development process, or the discovery of substantial resource deposits could possibly even have a detrimental effect on development. Right now the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq is at a crossroads and faces the challenge of turning its recently discovered oil and gas reserves into a financial motor that enables the blossoming democratisation and nation building process to continue, thus becoming the exception to the rule, or to follow the many examples where resource wealthhas turned into a curse.