Iraqi citizenship: a study of its concept and how to employ it

Abstract

The American occupation of Iraq in 2003 showed a situation that appears
to the other that there is a lack of integration among the components of the
Iraqi people that the occupation forced to perpetuate. The pluralism enjoyed by
Iraqi society is not a negative or a unique case among the countries of the
world. Therefore, it requires the political system in Iraq to believe in pluralism,
preserve the rights and public freedoms of all members of the people without
discrimination, and raise the interest of the nation above subsidiary affiliations.
Under these circumstances, there was an attempt to impose the Iraqi national
identity, but these attempts collided with the changes that occurred after 2003
AD, which adopted sectarian, regional and national quotas, which complicated
the problem of building a national identity.
The research hypothesis stems from an attempt to impose identities and
ideologies, which was an obstacle to the construction of the Iraqi national
identity, and that the change after 2003 AD has complicated the problem of
building the national identity, and its lack of it cast a shadow over the policy of this study and an attempt to analyze the problem and present proposals to
rebuild the national identity on appropriate foundations and according to the
following axes:
The first axis: the concept of citizenship and its components
The second axis: the most prominent means used for citizenship education.