Middle East Research Institute
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The
Middle East Research Institute (MERI) (; ) is an academic policy-research institute and think tank based in
Erbil in the
Kurdistan Region of
Iraq. MERI carries out fundamental research in areas of peace, human rights, governance, security and economy. Founded in 2014, the organisation has grown rapidly and now occupies an important niche in the field of policy research in the Middle East. MERI has been ranked by
Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of
University of Pennsylvania as Iraq's leading policy research organisation for the past three years in a run and No. 34 in the Middle East and North Africa.
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