Social organization, roles, and everyday life within Yazidi communities
Yazidis in Armenia and Georgia benefit from constitutional guarantees, dedicated minority legislation, and international treaty obligations. While Armenia has enacted a specific Law on National Minorities, Georgia follows the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and has introduced reforms to improve minority participation.
The Ziarat Temple, as a diaspora‑based sacred space, has become a focal point for Yazidi youth to negotiate identity, memory, and belonging. Drawing on recent scholarship, the article examines how the temple’s rituals, communal gatherings, and transnational networks sustain religious meaning while adapting to new social contexts.
Yazidi communities worldwide mark the Kocho massacre through coordinated memorials, advocacy events, and cultural rituals. From Iraq’s Yazda‑led vigils to diaspora gatherings in the United States and Europe, these commemorations sustain memory, demand justice, and support survivor resilience.
Digital archiving of Yazidi oral poetry preserves centuries‑old qewl and beyta through cassette digitisation, community‑driven archives, and scholarly recording projects. Recent initiatives have rescued thousands of recordings, created searchable databases, and chart a path toward AI‑assisted transcription and global access.
Yazidi women have historically served as custodians of sacred knowledge, from the early role of the Çavuş to contemporary participation in the Supreme Yazidi Spiritual Council. This article traces their evolving religious authority, regional variations, and scholarly debates surrounding gendered leadership within Yazidism.
Ba’athist collective towns (mujamma’at) were introduced in the 1970s to relocate rural Yazidis into planned settlements. This forced urbanisation altered kinship patterns, religious authority, and land tenure, leaving lasting effects on Yazidi community life.
Yazidi women who survived ISIS sexual slavery receive a range of reparative and psychosocial programmes, from state‑run reparations under Iraq’s Yazidi Female Survivors Law to NGO‑led initiatives such as the Interim Reparative Measures project and community‑based mental‑health services.
Yazidi women in Georgia have become pivotal agents of religious revitalization, community organization, and cultural advocacy. Their leadership navigates post‑Communist identity shifts, institutional reforms, and persistent societal barriers while shaping the future of the Yazidi diaspora.
Yazidi survivors of the ISIS‑led genocide receive a range of mental‑health supports in diaspora settings, from culturally‑adapted counseling and community healing farms to publicly funded trauma programmes. Canada, Germany and community NGOs lead efforts, yet barriers such as language, stigma and limited culturally safe providers persist.
The article examines the legal instruments governing oil and gas revenue distribution in Iraq’s Sinjar district, focusing on the 2020 Sinjar Agreement and its 2021 extensions, and assesses the prospects for equitable sharing between Baghdad and Erbil amid competing local and regional interests.