Components of the Ethnic Policy Model, with Emphasis on the Supreme Leader's Guidelines and the System's General Policies.

Pisoureh, Farshad; Jalalpoor, Shohreh; Ahmadi, Hossein

Components of the Ethnic Policy Model, with Emphasis on the Supreme Leader's Guidelines and the System's General Policies.

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Secretary of Education of Region 5 - Board of Directors of the Kurdish Community of Tehran - Member of the Presidential Strategic Studies Committee

² Assistant Prefessor

³ Assistant Professor

Abstract

Ethnic policy, in countries with multiple ethnicities, has always been a concern of society and government. The nature of these policies and their appropriate model, and in particular the components of this policy, are very important. There are various models for this policy, from "assimilation" which is a model for eliminating ethnic differences to "equal" and "unequal" pluralist models. Meanwhile, for the Iranian society, in which various ethnic groups have lived for centuries and formed a nation called Iran, ethnic policy can be based on the model of "unity in plurality" that is more compatible with the nature of the nation and its government and closer to society and government. Is. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, upstream documents have more or less addressed the issue of ethnicities and its leaders have always paid attention to the rights of ethnic groups and their participation in affairs, and considering these two, the present article seeks to answer the question that components of ethnic policy model in What is the Islamic Republic? In addition, by analyzing the statements of the leadership and upstream documents, seeks to extract these components and considers them as these five cases: 1. Religiosity; 2. National unity; 3. Coexistence of relatives; 4. Existence of diversity as an opportunity; And 5. The rule of law, the main purpose of which is to create a conceptual system for achieving a policy based on the "participation" of ethnic groups in all aspects of the country.

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