NUPI skole

Rapport

Publisert:

Shi'i Separatism in Iraq : Internet Reverie or Real Constitutional Challenge?

Skrevet av

Reidar Visser

Red.

Sammendrag:

This paper deals with non-conformist ideas among Iraqi Shi‘is about the territorial integrity of the modern state of Iraq. Two findings are presented. First, new Internet communications technology has enabled radical Shi‘is outside the main clerical, intellectual and political establishments to propagate visions of an independent Shi‘i state for the areas south of Baghdad, a scheme that runs counter to a robust and long-standing anti-separatist tradition among wider sections of the Shi‘i community. Secondly, by choosing the Internet as their primary modus operandi, the Shi‘i separatists also expose their relative weakness vis-à-vis other and less radical trends in Iraqi Shi‘i society.

Temaer

  • Midtøsten og Nord-Afrika

Skrevet av

Reidar Visser

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