Regional Studies Center

Under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Qusay Kamal Al-Din Al-Ahmadi, President of the University of Mosul, Regional Studies Center, in cooperation with the College of Political Science, International Relations Branch, held the sixteenth virtual scientific symposium entitled “Security culture and its role in promoting peace and social security” on April 11, 2022.The symposium aimed to present ideas, suggestions, and recommendations that would contribute effectively to raising the level of security culture among all segments of society, especially the youth, and to identify the impact of security culture and its importance in building peace and social safety by focusing on the role of academic, cultural, intellectual, media and security elites in guiding and educating society about the dangers of extremist ideas that lead to terrorism and beware of the factors and causes that may drive to crime, including cybercrime, which negatively affect the security and stability of society, and the significance of confronting this by diagnosing the causes and developing legislation, strategies, and educational programs in a way that enhances the principles of tolerance and peaceful coexistence and consolidates societal security.The symposium involved the following topics: the Iraqi national security strategy, security media and its role in combating extremism and terrorism, peace-building strategies, consolidating social coexistence, and electronic and cyber security.The symposium included a review of the following working papers: Intellectual security and its role in immunizing society from crime; Security media and its role in enhancing security and societal stability in Iraq; Cyber security in Iraq: Reality and Challenges ;Collective security and counter-terrorism; The intellectual and societal security strategy and its role in immunizing youth; Restorative Justice and peace building in Nineveh: a preliminary foresight; The responsibility of the media in controlling intellectual security; Strategies for sustaining peace and consolidating community coexistence in Iraq; Cyber security is the new force space in the global strategic environment; Security media and achieving political stability in Iraq after 2003; international peace building mechanisms; The role of the security media in confronting the (ISIS) media strategy; The impact of cyber threats on Iraqi national security; Peacebuilding Strategies in post-conflict societies; Peacebuilding challenges in post-conflict countries.