Pierre-Jean Luizard, is a French historian, specialised on Iraq and director of the National Centre on Scientific research (CNRS). He came to the French Research Centre on Iraq (CFRI) to give a presentation on the history of Iraq, which as he says himself, “a French angle that you are most welcome to disagree with”. Facing him were participants representing the Iraqi youth in all its diversity that participated in this training course, organised by the CFRI in Paris from the 5th to 9th of September. The project was co-organised by the Civil Development Organisation and the Barzani Charity Foundation, two civil society organisations from Iraq. The aim of the course was to learn, share and collectively think on how to articulate Iraqi diversity in these trouble times.