College of Arts discusses the civil movement in Iraq after 2003 and its impact on the future of state building

The College of Arts – Department of Geography at the University of Kufa discussed the doctoral thesis in political geography entitled (The civil movement in Iraq after 2003 and its impact on the future of state building) by the student Haider Aziz Kashish.

This study – which received a rating of excellence – attempted to describe the protest movements that took place in the Iraqi street after 2003, especially the demonstrations of 2015, as falling within the framework and determinants of social movements, and such a matter became clear in the framing and methodological foundation of the study, as the large area in it, It was to establish the concept of social movements and trace their theoretical foundations and historical paths in the Western space, leading to research into such paths from the beginnings of the founding of the Iraqi state until after 2003.

  The study used both descriptive and analytical approaches. The descriptive approach was used to present the paths of development of the civil movement in Iraq after 2003, while the analytical approach was used at the level of approach from the perspective of political geography to the distribution of urban centers that have become the centers of power of this movement.

The study concluded that the repercussions that occurred in the Iraqi street since 2015, which reached its peak of escalation in October 2019, are nothing but pivotal facts and events that Iraq experienced during this period and had repercussions on the state and society together, but like all contemporary events, they will continue to retain their secrets and circumstances. The depth and complexity of these events, therefore, the study attempted to read these events – within the limits of the capabilities available to us, from a geopolitical perspective, and with a methodology that envisages, as much as possible, summoning data for an objective analysis of these events and relating them to what is for them and what they entail.