Prof. Dr. Asmaa Jamil Rashid, a faculty member from the Center for Women’s Studies at the University of Baghdad, has announced the issue of her new book authored in partnership with the Prof. Dr. Adnan Yassin Mustafa, that is entitled (Children of Daesh: the Legacy of Conflict and the Darkness of the Future). The book was published by Al-Bayan Center for Studies and Planning, in 148 pages consisting of two main chapters and a long introduction written by the researcher Ali al-Mamouri, in which the authors addressed one of the most important problems that threaten human and societal security and sustainability in Iraq.
The first chapter was written by Prof. Dr. Adnan Yassin Mustafa, who is an expert in human development and a professor of the sociology of development at the University of Baghdad under the title “Booby-trapped childhood and social responsibility: the legacy of conflict and the predicament of subjugation”, in which he talked about the nature of extremist ideology that directs the violent behavior of terrorist groups and the most important factors that contribute to its individual development.
The second chapter was written by Dr. Asmaa Jamil Rashid, who focused on community reactions towards children associated with violent extremism groups and their mothers as well as the impact of these reactions on the reproduction of violent extremism based on the basic premises of stigma theory, which drew attention to society and its impact on creating the personality of the criminal. Contrary to the research concerned with the stigma theory that are focusing on those who are stigmatized, not the effects of stigma on their interactions, the current study tries to focus on the children born to ISIS fathers, due to the inability to reach children born as the result of rape.
