seyed yasin hosseini

Religion is supposed to play its role as a unifying factor, while religious beliefs sometimes lead to anti-social and destructive behaviors. The present study examines the social conflicts based on religion in the last half century in Kurdistan province and studies the role of religion in weakening or intensifying social conflicts. Emile Durkheim, Merton and Passons give religion a role of cohesion and consider the function of religion to protect society. On the other hand, Marxists believe that religion not only does not eliminate social contradictions, but also aggravates them. The current research has used the constructivism approach and library historical methods, oral history and ethnography and has studied the lived experiences of the society based on existing theories with documentary tools such as books, newspapers and interviews with knowledgeable people. According to the findings, conflicts in Kurdistan were sometimes between individuals, sometimes between sects, religious or secular groups. Sometimes these contradictions are intellectually and sometimes physically and coercive forces are strengthened or weakened in the long or short term. The results indicate that in the researched society, religion affects social conflicts in seven ways. Among them, in one case, religion reflects the conflict, in three cases, it destroys, covers and weakens it, and in the other three cases, it is the origin, strengthening and continuation of the conflicts.

Conflict in societies is a pervasive issue that manifests itself in various economic, political, scientific and religious dimensions. Religion, although often cohesive, cannot be denied the contradictions based on it. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to investigate the social conflicts based on religion in the last half century in Kurdistan province. This research aims to investigate religious-based social conflicts in Kurdistan over the past half century. The research has a qualitative approach to the subject and uses two historical methods via historical documents including biographies, books, papers and oral history. In this way, informed people in Kurdistan are also interviewed. The second method includes ethnography which the researcher uses the observation and conversation techniques to debate the lived experiences of the studied population (religious people of various religious sects). In the meantime, these experiences are used to address relevant social conflicts. The findings suggest that the distribution of conflicts between groups are identified from a geographical point of view. Seven categories of religion-based social conflicts in Kurdistan including “religion as the eliminator of conflicts”, “religion as the concealer of conflicts”, “religion as the representer of conflicts”, “religion as the perpetuator of conflicts”, “religion as strengthener and intensifier of conflicts”, “religion as source and origin of social conflicts” and “religion as underminer of conflicts” are extracted. Each of the said conflicts has arisen between intellectual groups with different religious attitudes or religious groups with secular thinking attitudes. These conflicts have sometimes been embodied in the form of conflicting views, and sometimes in the form of physical and force majeure. These conflicts are sometimes strengthened and undermined by religion in the form of a process and long term, or are immediate and short term.

Iranian Parliament election venue is one of the most important executive stages of parliament election and if it plans truly, it will have positive influence on results of parliament’s election and structure and bring legality of democracy. This requires observing criteria of free and fair election for determining electoral venues. A short look on transformations of Parliament’s election related to regulations of Iranian election shows defects and problem in this regard. In order to solve such problems and to guarantee even more criteria of free and fair election, members of the Parliament provide a plan of election system transformation (transforming election to provincial nominee election) and submit it to the parliament. This plan could vindicate its goals relying on its capacities and positive point and considering its likely weak point. Therefore, this study firstly deals with Legislative Election venue and then analysis the mentioned plan.