The department of crisis study at the center for strategic and international studies has organized recently a workshop entitled “Popular movement in Iraq and reform problems” presented by Dr. Khairi Abdul Razzaq Jassim with the aim to address the nature and consequences of the renewed popular movement in the country.
The lecturer stressed that Iraq was not far from popular protest movements over time that have all demanded comprehensive reforms in the existing political system for the period (2011 – 2014) till the last popular movement escalated in 2019. Dr. Khairi Abdul Razzaq stated that the inability of the political system to respond to societal demands has led to the frequency of renewed protests, in addition to the continued slowdown in responding to people’s demands that has reached the point of changing the political system, although it started demanding reform, so the chances of any political change in the first place depend on the federal government’s convincing response to these claims.
