Basrah and Arab Gulf Studies Center, in cooperation with the Iraqi Center for Documentation of Extremist Crimes of the Imam Al-Abbas Holy Shrine, organized a scientific symposium on political conflict and its impact on fueling violent extremism
The symposium included a discussion of several research papers related to the ideological change in Iraq and its implications for contemporary experiences, the shift in value conflicts in the Middle East from zero-sum game to career conflict, and politics and its impact on the emergence of extremist Salafist groups
The symposium recommended the need to continue holding seminars that study extremism to analyze the behavior of extremist groups and address their destructive ideas
