Iraqi Youth: Visions and Aspirations - An Analytical Study (In Arabic)

The issue of youth occupies a central place in development priorities and strategies. It is the issue that most intersects and converges with all the issues of society in its present and future. In Iraq, the youth group was among the groups most affected by the conditions of crises that Iraqi society was exposed to, as it bore for long periods the burden of wars, conflicts and violence, and it also entered the predicament of unemployment. Despite the clear growth witnessed by efforts concerned with youth during the past two decades, youth empowerment projects and their inclusion in development processes remained negatively affected by societal changes and transformations that were reflected in the results on the levels of government awareness, the awareness of civil society organizations, and large sectors of youth themselves, which requires an appropriate pause and efforts. A national and international collective explores the depths of this transformation and contributes to the empowerment of youth and serving their causes. Their problems, aspirations, sources of anxiety and frustration, their outlook on the future and their positions on basic issues such as security, participation, communication, media... etc. These topics, in addition to their knowledge value, can form a basis for understanding the youth in Iraq. The current study aimed to identify the vision of Iraqi youth for their country, to reveal their grievances and their economic and social aspirations, and to know their attitudes and opinions about the nature of the political process and its mechanisms, joints and components, whether it was their evaluation of the experience or their aspirations to develop it, as well as its attempt to discover the similarities and consistency in their views about the Iraqi past and present.