Cultural Components of Border Residents and its Role in Sustainable Security of Kermanshah Border Areas

پژوهش ‎های جغرافیای سیاسی

Article 5, Volume 7, Issue 3 - Serial Number 27, October 2022, Pages 101-124   

Document Type: مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/pg.2022.71770.1075

Authors

Nejat Mohammadifar^{* 1}; Ali Moradi²

¹Department of Political Sciences, University of Ardakan, Ardakan, Iran

²Department of Sociology, Eslam Abad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Eslam Abad-e-gharb. Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the cultural components of the border residents and its role in sustainable security of Kermanshah border areas. According to the hypothesis, there is a significant relationship between the cultural components of the border residents and the sustainable security of the border areas. The present study was conducted by the method (quantitative and qualitative). The statistical population in the qualitative section included experts and specialists aware of the research topic. Snow ball method is the sampling method in the qualitative section, which reached a theoretical consensus with 30 elites and experts. A small part of the statistical population is included citizens of the border areas of Kermanshah province. According to initial estimates, the number of these people was 540. Semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires are used to collect data. The coding analysis method was used to identify and prioritize the cultural components and sustainable border security. Also, SPSS software was used in the quantitative part of the study. The results show that sustainable border security from the respondents' point of view has 19 semantic parts in six common categories, included "economic security", "social security", "political security", "environmental security", "military security" and "cultural security". On the other hand, the cultural dimensions of the border residents were the six dimensions of "participation and cooperation", "cultural cohesion", "two-way interaction", "insight and awareness", "ideology" and "chivalry". Correlation matrices between cultural categories and sustainable border security show that there is a significant and direct relationship between each of the components of this matrix. It can be said that the two categories of the core of sustainable border security and the six cultural components of border residents are interrelated; if a two-way interaction takes place between these components, social order will be formed in the borders and the border residents will witness a kind of sustainable security.

Keywords

Culture; Development; Security; Border Residents; Kermanshah

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