Dr Paul White works as an independent consultant in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has taught Middle East Politics courses at Deakin University in Melbourne; at Macquarie University in Sydney; and at the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is the author of Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey (Zed Books, 2000). He was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and serves on the board of directors of the Kurdish Institute, Washington DC.
Introduction 1. 'The Time of Revolution Has Started' 2. PKK Origins and
Ideological Formation 3. Early Years of Struggle 4. From Ceasefire to
All-Out War 5. The Move Towards Peace 6. Democratic Confedaralism and the
PKK's Feminist Transformation 7. Coming Down from the Mountains
