HAMMURABI HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION

Their core work

Hammurabi Human Rights Organization is an Iraqi civil society and research body based in Baghdad that works on human rights, forced displacement, and extremism in conflict-affected contexts. Their primary value to European research consortia is direct field access and institutional credibility in Iraq and the broader Middle East — regions that appear as case studies or partner contexts in projects studying migration and radicalization. In RESPOND, they contributed a non-European governance perspective on mass migration; in D.Rad, they brought on-the-ground knowledge of radicalization dynamics to a pan-European de-radicalization framework. They serve as a bridge between EU-funded social research and real-world conditions in post-conflict and fragile states.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Hammurabi entered H2020 through the migration governance stream (RESPOND, 2017), where the focus was on policy frameworks and multi-level governance — no technical or computational dimension is visible in the early keyword profile. By 2020, their second project (D.Rad) brought a substantially broader toolkit: artificial intelligence, spatial analysis, and justice appear as explicit themes alongside the continuing security and human rights core. The shift suggests the organization is moving from purely qualitative, field-based contributions toward research projects that combine social science with data-driven and geospatial methods.

Hammurabi appears to be positioning itself as a field-grounded partner capable of contributing to technically sophisticated projects at the intersection of AI, spatial analysis, and security — a profile that fits the growing demand for non-European case study partners in Horizon Europe security and society calls.

How they like to work

Hammurabi has participated exclusively as a consortium member — never as coordinator — across both projects. Despite this modest role count, they have engaged with 27 distinct partners across 19 countries, which is unusually broad for just two projects and signals that both consortia were large, multi-country RIA efforts. This pattern suggests they are sought as a specialist regional voice rather than an administrative hub, brought in specifically to ground European research frameworks in Middle Eastern realities.

With 27 unique partners across 19 countries from only two projects, Hammurabi's network is geographically wide for its size — a direct consequence of joining large pan-European consortia that extend into neighbouring regions. Their geographic reach spans Europe and the Middle East, with Iraq as their anchor territory.

What sets them apart

Hammurabi is one of very few Iraqi institutional partners in H2020, giving it a rare and hard-to-replicate position as a credible research partner with direct access to field realities in a country central to both European migration flows and radicalization studies. For consortia building projects that must demonstrate genuine "beyond Europe" reach — not just token inclusion — Hammurabi offers institutional legitimacy, local networks, and research capacity in Baghdad that no European subcontractor can substitute. Their human rights mandate also strengthens the ethical framing required in security and society calls.

Highlights from their portfolio

• RESPOND
  Their first and largest H2020 project (EUR 67,625), addressing multilevel governance of mass migration — a high-priority EU policy topic — with Hammurabi providing the critical Iraq case study dimension.
• D.Rad
  More technically ambitious than RESPOND, D.Rad introduced AI and spatial analysis into Hammurabi's work, signalling a meaningful expansion of their research toolkit toward data-driven security methods.