Cultural Harmony and Its Impact on Peaceful Coexistence

The UNESCO Chair for Dialogue at Kufa University held the electronic symposium (Cultural Harmony and Its Impact on Peaceful Coexistence).
Dr. Zeid Abbas Karim, UNESCO Chair, managed the electronic symposium. At the same time, Dr. Sabah Abbas Anouz/ Kufa University, and Dr. Rahman Gharkan, from the University of Al-Qadisiyah, were the lecturers, at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 23, 2022, on Google Meet.
In the beginning, Dr. Alaa Shatnan, the Director of the UNESCO Chair for Dialogue, welcomed the attendees and talked about how vital the symposium’s topic was and how it would help improve the space for peaceful coexistence through cultural dialogue and diversity.
Professor Sabah Abbas Anouz’s paper was entitled “Cultural Harmony and Peaceful Coexistence, Vision and Solutions,” in which the lecturer focused on the religious pattern as a direct influence on collective consciousness and its importance through his direct contact with the concept of identity. Because of this, it is important to link this religious pattern with moral virtue in the right way, as our Islamic heritage does, and to spread the spirit of tolerance through moral and poetic texts in order to build a peaceful society and make sure it stays that way.
Professor Rahman Gharkan’s paper on the topic (Type of Coordinating Discourse and its Impact on Peaceful Coexistence) emphasized the coordinating function of making human beings persistent and productive in their human actions by collecting five patterns of objectives: target identification, adaptation, integration, pattern support, and stress management. Through these patterns, we must see the religious and social cohesion that controls and shapes our societies as controlling governance.
At the end of the symposium, recommendations were made. The most important one was the need to guide cultural harmony in its diversity in a unified discourse that supports the spirit of tolerance and peaceful coexistence. Iraq’s society, which is made up of people from different ethnic groups, religions, and sects, needs to be able to live together peacefully and in harmony.
Translated into English by Shaima Adnan.