{"id":1787,"date":"2025-03-02T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T06:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2025-03-05T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:13:11","slug":"developing-iraqi-think-tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/posts\/1787","title":{"rendered":"Developing Iraqi Think Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em><strong>Lukman Faily<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In light of the challenges facing Iraqi think tanks and research centres, there is an urgent and immediate need for a regulatory framework that contributes to enhancing their independence, ensuring their transparency, and increasing their influence in decision-making. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive vision on how to develop this sector through a voluntary code of conduct that works to establish professional and ethical standards governing the work of these centres, while maintaining their academic and administrative independence.<br \/>\nThis paper addresses the challenges facing Iraqi think tanks, as these institutions suffer from weak funding, the absence of a clear legal framework, limits the influence on public policies, while on the other hand we also get political interventions. In addition, the culture of scientific research and rational decision-making based on evidence and effectiveness is still limited, which makes the role of these centres less effective compared to their counterparts in other countries (both democratic or non-democratic).<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/uh33.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lukman Faily In light of the challenges facing Iraqi think tanks and research centres, there is an urgent and immediate need for a regulatory framework that contributes to enhancing their independence, ensuring their transparency, and increasing their influence in decision-making. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive vision on how to develop this sector through &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[214,50,209],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-code-of-conduct","tag-iraq","tag-think-tanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baidarcenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}