Violence and Extremism in Iraq: Approaches to Motives and Means of Confrontation

Abstract

     After the year 2003, Iraq went through multiple waves of violence and at different levels on the security, intellectual, political and social levels. Behind that stood several motives and incentives to enable violence that represented the first axis of research, the most important of which was the political motives that circulated an atmosphere that politics against society and transformed power into a field of political brutality against the individual and the group at once. There are also cultural, intellectual, media and economic motives such as weak cultural independence, poverty, marginalization, unemployment and want, and the absence of a media discourse that rejects violence but incites it, on the other hand, there are ways to confront those motives that Iraq needs, including political, intellectual, cultural, media, and economic, which prevent violence and extremism and achieve peace and stability, which will be the focus of the second research.