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Participatory governance provides the basis for people's decision-making, implementation and supervision by them in social and political relations, and after that, this model can lead to the growth and development of members of society, strengthening social capital, increasing justice and social cohesion. Through investigations, we can extract a lot of evidence about the importance and dimensions of participatory governance in religious teachings and traditions. One of the successful samples of participatory governance in the present era is the phenomenon of Arba'een Pilgrimage, which has attracted the attention of many politicians and researchers. Identifying the dimensions and effects of this rare phenomenon can clarify the way to achieve participatory governance in the social, cultural, political and economic fields. Therefore, important interviews have been conducted with Shia thinkers regarding the dimensions and effects of the Arba'een Pilgrimage. These interviews have been analyzed with the qualitative method of thematic analysis, and the indications identified in them have been categorized under the three-pronged model. This model provides indications of participation in the Arba'een Pilgrimage based on context, structure and content. By identifying the different dimensions of this great social participation and examining its implications, this phenomenon can be used as a successful operational model to realize participatory governance in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

This qualitative research was conducted with the aim of providing a model of the role of Arab-Israeli peace on the security and interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This study is a type of qualitative research that was conducted using the foundational data theory. 12 interviews were conducted with professors of Tehran universities in international relations and political sciences. The result of these interviews was a set of primary themes that were compiled during the process of open coding and categories were extracted from them; Then, in the phase of core coding, the link between these categories was determined under the headings: causal conditions, core phenomenon, strategies, contextual factors, intervening conditions and consequences affecting the security of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the form of a core coding paradigm; In the following and in the selective coding stage, the course of the story was drawn. The results showed that the causal factors affecting the security and interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran are: governance needs, national power strengthening needs, security needs, information needs, religious needs. The strategies related to the research subject include three types of actions at the national level, regional actions and international actions. Inadequate official neighborhood communication, government structural features, limited mutual interactions, lack of strategic plans were identified as intervening factors, and the features of the West Asian (geographical) region, religious features, socio-cultural features are background factors affecting security. and the interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Due to the spread of natural and human disasters and their widespread consequences, the need to strengthen the indicators of social resilience is felt more and more among the social activists. The present study was conducted with the aim of sociological investigation of socio-economic determinants of social resilience among the household heads. The statistical population of the research includes all the household heads of Ramhormoz city, which according to the last Census of 2015, it is 127/20 households from whom 384 households were selected as the sample size by multi-stage cluster sampling method. In this research, the data were analyzed using SPSS software. The descriptive findings of the current research showed that the rate of social resilience among household heads in Ramhormoz city is medium to high. The results of the present study showed that there is a direct and significant relationship between the variables of religious orientation, social capital and social resilience. Also, no significant relationship was observed between the variables of economic capital and social resilience among the respondents. The results of the regression analysis showed that the variables included in the model (internal religious orientation, social cognitive capital, external religious orientation) explain 0.177 of the variance of the dependent variable. By comparing the beta coefficients, it can be said that the internal religious orientation variable with a beta coefficient of 0.233 has the highest impact on social resilience.

Today, the media is considered as one of the main elements of soft power, and governments seek to influence the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of the people of the countries by using psychological operation techniques. One of these examples is the events that took place in Iran following the riots of September and October 1401. Based on this, this article has been carried out with the aim of identifying the psychological operations techniques of the BBC Persian television channel against the Islamic Republic of Iran in the riots of September and October 1401.. From the total of relevant contents between 16 September and 10 October 2022 in news sections, 60-minute analytical news program, program in other words, page 2 program, Purple Crystal program and special program of Pargar BBC Persian Channel with targeted sampling. It was selected and analyzed using the qualitative content analysis method. The results of the research show that the mentioned media used a total of 9 techniques of psychological operations, including conditioning, creating division and differences, indirect induction, buck passing, enlightening, inciting, inverting, dehumanizing the opponent, and narcotisation.

In order to reduce their vulnerability, all societies try to maintain the readiness of society members to defend the homeland against foreign enemies. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating readiness for defense of the homeland and the social factors affecting it among the people of Quchan city. The research method was survey and the research instrument was questionnaire, in the form of vignettes. The population was citizens of 15 to 65 years of age of Qochan, which was completed by multi-stage random sampling with a sample size of 323 people . Formal validity based on experts' opinion and Cronbach's alpha were used for the reliability of the measurement tool structure. The analysis of research data has been done with SPSS version 21 and the use of correlation measurement between variables and multivariate regression test. The results of the research showed that the factors affecting the defense of the homeland are different in men and women. While in women, the factors related to social solidarity, empathy, hope to help fellow countrymen in times of problems have a great influence on their readiness to sacrifice, in men, the feeling of social responsibility and pressure and role modeling are the main motivation to be on the front line. Here, we should mention the serious and powerful factor of religiosity, which is common among all types of self-sacrifice, including men and women. The factor of religiosity has explained both types of self-sacrifice in men and women with a significant contribution.

Potential establishment of the Zangezur corridor is among the most radical geopolitical changes in the Caucus region that imposes various effects on the regional countries. Among them, Iran, due to sever international sanctions, enjoys the least opportunity to reap the possible transit benefits of the corridor but finds his security adversely affected. Considering the gap on a comprehensive study in the literature and methodological and epistemic deficiencies of the previous studies, the current research is an attempt to employ regional security complex theory, use a mixed-methods approach in research (exploratory analysis, structural analysis and scenario writing), use expert panel and reliable software (SPSS, MicMac and Scenario wizard) for validating the finding to investigate these consequences. It was revealed that 18 variables with accepted factor loading under four components of Economic, Transit, Hegemonic/Geopolitics and Military affect Iran’s security due to the corridor. Also, structural interpretation showed that these system of effects involve critical, risk, target and output variables that have exclusive nature and behavior. Also, the scenario development revealed that “strengthening convergence with Armenia”, “financing common transit routes with Armenia”, “and preserving status quo in the border” and “removing sanctions and reviving trade competition” are the key critical variables in the most consistent scenario.