Unknown Soldier writer Joshua Dysart has announced he'll be traveling to the troubled Kurdistan region of Iraq to conduct research for a project he's planning with the United Nations World Food Programme.

"We’ve been plotting to tell some stories about the complexity and necessity of feeding the world’s displaced people in an engaging way," Dysart writes on his website. "Now we’re finally getting started and soon I’ll be leaving for northern Iraq. There, I’ll begin researching the current situation facing Kurdish refugees fleeing the Syrian conflict and the violent push of the Islamic State."

The writer spent a month in Acholiland, Uganda, in 2007 to research Unknown Soldier, his Eisner-nominated Vertigo series that recast the classic DC Comics character as Moses Lwanga, a physician who returns to his native country to help the refugees caught up in the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency.

"I saw how war destroys culture, family structure, generational ties and hope," Dysart writes. "Since that trip I have been back here in the States making superhero comics, watching movies, eating well, but – always – there was a sense that I was shirking something, hiding from something. It’s good to be free and full, but with it comes a responsibility to care about those who aren’t."

Read more on the writer's website.