The NSI is a non-profit research and analysis institute based in Erbil. We have three main youth-related functions; scientific research, educational publications, and socio-cultural activities. Our mission is youth-centric. We help the youth to maximise their potential by bonding them to each other, to their society and also to their social institutions. Our objective is to enable the youth to serve their society in meaningful ways by aiding them in achieving their goals. The precondition to our mission is our vision which is connecting the youth to their history, culture and society, and this forms the ethos of our mission. In pursuit of this mission, the NSI will conduct planned in-depth research and programming focusing on local and national issues in four interrelated themes: Economy and the Market Politics and Governance Science and Technology Society and Culture