Silvia Lucretia Nicola
Analyst


Silvia Nicola is an analyst at Middle East Minds. She is also a full-time social scientist at the Centre for Military History and Social Sciences of the German Armed Forces. She studied Political Science at the Free University of Berlin and the Universidad de Granada (Spain) as well as Military Studies at the University of Potsdam. She is currently doing her PhD on German-Iraqi-Kurdish relations between 1991 and 2020 at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2016, she has also been working as a consultant in the field of migration and diaspora and has contributed to several studies for the IOM, the Federal Foreign Office and the GIZ. She also regularly leads seminars on political education.
 
     


Contact:   silvia.nicola@middle-east-minds.com


Research focus:

 

· Security Policy of the Middle East

· Fragile statehood


· Migration und Diaspora

· Country profiles: Kurdistan Region, Iraq
 


Publications:

  • Essays and Articles

    • Nicola, Silvia: “Tod in der Luft. Der Giftgasangriff auf Halabdscha am 16. März 1988”, ZMSBw,  2023, p. 1–8. https://doi.org/10.48727/OPUS4-630.https://doi.org/10.48727/OPUS4-630.

    • Nicola, Silvia: “Die politisch-militärische Lage in Sintschar“, in: Gatzhammer, Stefan and Hafner Johann et. Al [Hrsg.]: Ferman 74. Der Genozid an den Jesiden 2014/15. Analysen – Interviews – Dokumentationen, Ergon, S. 79 - 94 2021.

    • Nicola, Silvia & Faraj, Shahen: "Should I stay, or should I go? Migration attitudes after the financial crisis (2014 - 2019) among students from Halabja (KRI)", in: Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, 14(3): 201-222, 2021.

    • Nicola, Silvia: How to break the spell? Sources of violence and conflict in an oil-rent based economy. A Case Study of Iraq and the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, in: Cante, Fredy and Torres Tatiana [Ed.]: Nonviolent Political Economy. Theory and Applications., Routledge, S. 221 – 237, 2019.

    • Kucharzewski, Tim/Nicola, Silvia: Contrasting Education policies regarding the Holocaust and the World War II in East Germany and Romania. A schoolbook comparison, in: Holocaust. Studii si Cercetari, Vol. IX, Nr. 1 (10) /2017, Bucharest.

    • Nicola, Silvia/Selcuk, Müzehher: Das kurdische schwarze Gold, in: ÖMZ - Österreichische Militärische Zeitschrift, Vol. 2, p. 142-151, 2015. 

  • Paper and political Analyses

    • Nicola, Silvia: Adding ‘oil’ to the fire? International Economic Cooperation and the Dynamics of Contentions. The Case Study of the Autonomous Region of Kurdistan, FI Working Paper No.9, edition eins: Felsberg, 2017.

    • Daxner, Michael/Nicola, Silvia: Prepare-Protect-Promote. Mapping of and report on the Afghan Diaspora in Germany, GIZ, 2017.

  • Collaboration on Monographs and Encyclopaedias

    • Daxner, Michael/Näser-Lather, Marion/Nicola, Silvia [Ed.]: Conflict Veterans. Discourses and Living Contexts of an Emerging Social Group, Cambridge Publishing Press, 2018.

    • Nicola, Silvia: Timeline: The Middle East and Palestine in Selected Data, in: Gülistan, Gürbey/ Sabine, Hofmann/Ferhad Ibrahim, Seydar [Ed.]: Between State and Non-State: Politics and Society in Kurdistan-Iraq an Palestine, Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2017.