Strategic Studies Series ... Study No. (4)

The vision of the University of Anbar for the strategy of combating extremist and deviant ideas in the Iraqi university community

          The Iraqi university community is considered one of the most dangerous environments in conflict areas and areas that are experiencing intellectual or security turmoil because it contains a large number of students and their ages are at the end of adolescence and the beginning of youth, and that stage is divided by revolutionary thinking, emotional impact and rapid surrounding interaction, and Anbar University has a specialty in This field has experience in dealing with such a situation due to the events of 2003 and the subsequent changes in the political and security situation in Iraq in general and Anbar in particular. ISIS terrorist organization and the accompanying deviation in the ideas and behaviors of some students and even affiliates, although the numbers are few, but it deserves study and analysis to provide a vision for the university based on a realistic field study in this matter about theories and information from the virtual world. Its scholars and researchers hope that it will be useful in how to deal with the problems of deviant and extremist ideas and how to address them in the media university i.

I thank the researchers who submitted this study, wishing them success, as it is one of the university's continuous workshops to study the post-ISIS era