The Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance, Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Units at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Girls, University of Baghdad, were organized in cooperation and coordination with a delegation from the Department of Psychological and Social Rehabilitation to Combat Extremism/Department of Youth Culture and Arts, by Lect. Dr. Muwaffaq Makki and Asst Lect. Taha Hamid and Lect. Rahma Raad to hold a scientific awareness symposium for undergraduate students entitled (National identity and its role in promoting peaceful coexistence).
The symposium’s speaker, Dr. Muwaffaq Makki, presented the concept of national identity as the characteristics and features that distinguish citizens within each country, and the most prominent of these characteristics is their spirit of belonging, and using it to raise their morale for the purpose of progress and prosperity of their societies, pointing to its basic elements represented by the material and moral elements.
He added that strengthening the individual’s national identity makes him enjoy personal rights such as education, ownership, and work, as well as their participation in the individual and collective duties that they must perform.
He also explained the relationship between national identity and citizenship, as the two are directly linked to national belonging, which is an essential part of citizenship, the goal of which is the citizen’s connection to the state, because they both work to belong to the state and society, considering them a basis for peaceful coexistence and comprehensive development of the homeland.
This symposium achieves one of the sustainable development goals represented by the fourth goal: quality education, and the seventeenth goal: establishing partnerships to achieve the goals.
The Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance, Rehabilitation, Employment and Follow-up Units at the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for Girls, University of Baghdad, were organized in cooperation and coordination with a delegation from the Department of Psychological and Social Rehabilitation to Combat Extremism/Department of Youth Culture and Arts, by Lect. Dr. Muwaffaq Makki and Asst Lect. Taha Hamid and Lect. Rahma Raad to hold a scientific awareness symposium for undergraduate students entitled (National identity and its role in promoting peaceful coexistence).
The symposium’s speaker, Dr. Muwaffaq Makki, presented the concept of national identity as the characteristics and features that distinguish citizens within each country, and the most prominent of these characteristics is their spirit of belonging, and using it to raise their morale for the purpose of progress and prosperity of their societies, pointing to its basic elements represented by the material and moral elements.
He added that strengthening the individual’s national identity makes him enjoy personal rights such as education, ownership, and work, as well as their participation in the individual and collective duties that they must perform.
He also explained the relationship between national identity and citizenship, as the two are directly linked to national belonging, which is an essential part of citizenship, the goal of which is the citizen’s connection to the state, because they both work to belong to the state and society, considering them a basis for peaceful coexistence and comprehensive development of the homeland.
This symposium achieves one of the sustainable development goals represented by the fourth goal: quality education, and the seventeenth goal: establishing partnerships to achieve the goals.
