Since 1984, violence between the secessionist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Turkish state has claimed more than 40,000 lives. In 2016 this violence has significantly worsened, causing the number of Kurdish youth who seek retribution for the destruction of their homes via violent retaliation to skyrocket. Because ceasefires between the PKK and the government continue to fail, it becomes clear that this conflict will not end without a restructuring of the very core of the Kurdish-majority southeast. Political scientist Dawn Brancati shows that decentralization and expanded local governance have facilitated peace and dampened calls for secession in many democracies throughout the world with regionally concentrated ethnic minorities; the historic 12% of votes (fourth overall) won by the pro-decentralization Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in the 2015 parliamentary elections demonstrates the increasing support for this solution among Kurdish and non-Kurdish Turks. To this end, my paper examines what federal powers could be decentralized to increase local Kurdish autonomy. To accomplish this I examine case studies of political decentralization in countries with regionally concentrated minorities and secessionist movements like Turkey, including Northern Ireland, Scotland, Indonesia, and Spain. As a way to investigate further mechanisms to facilitate peace, I also explore reforms to Turkey’s education system, focusing on a dual-language Kurdish-Turkish educational program. To do this, I evaluate case studies of countries with similar education systems to Turkey, including India, Spain, and Sri Lanka.