The College of Political Science at the University of Baghdad discussed the master’s thesis entitled “The Demographic view and Its Role in Planning for Peacebuilding after 2001: Selected Models,” by the student “Ikhlas Hussein Alwan.” The thesis explained that if countries want to build peace, security and internal stability must be provided, which is done through achieving human development and societal well-being. There is no peace or stability without growth and development, as poverty, unemployment, and lack of health and education services are a springboard for tensions, revolutions, acts of violence, and extremism. The passage of countries through the demographic transition and their entry into the demographic stage is characterized by an increase in the size of the population of working and productive age (15-64 years) in exchange for a decline in other dependent groups (children and the elderly), which makes it facing two options. The first is a positive opportunity through rehabilitating society and achieving economic growth through building and developing human capacities. As for the second, it is a negative opportunity if decision-makers cannot deal with it and pre-plan for it, creating the appropriate conditions for growth and progress, because the working group in general and the young group in particular are characterized by vitality and effectiveness, and if they do not find education, care, guidance and health, and they are unemployed, it is possible for this generated and produced energy be transformed into a destructive force for the present and future.
Based on the foregoing, the thesis is divided into three chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter deals with the nature of the demographic view and peacebuilding, which in turn was divided into three sections. In the first topic, it revolves around the concept of the demographic view and its developments. The second topic deals with the concept of peacebuilding and its implications, while the third topic deals with the vision of countries and organizations of the demographic view and their role in building peace.
At the end of the discussion, the researcher was awarded a master’s degree with a grade of high “very good” wishing all our students success in their academic and practical lives
