Document Type : REVIEW PAPER

Author

• Raed Ramsan Hossein Al-Tamimi (Iraq)

Master in Department of Teaching Methods, Faculty of Basic Education, Sumer University and President of Human Rights Awareness Organization, Sumer, Iraq

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the role of cyberspace in developing and promoting a peaceful coexistence between religions. The overall research sample consisted of individuals, where the clergymen, university professors, and a teacher of Islamic studies were chosen by the intentional method in the province of Najaf, and they chose the intentional method. The researcher adopted the descriptive approach, and in order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher prepared a questionnaire consisting of a paragraph, divided into three areas: the use of cyberspace to promote peaceful coexistence, the discourse of electronic space in peaceful coexistence, the role of electronic media in peaceful coexistence, and the validity of the questionnaire was verified. The statistical analysis package (SPSS) was adopted to extract the results, and the results showed: That the opinions of clerics, university professors, and Islamic studies teachers came to a high degree in the field of using cyberspace to promote peaceful coexistence. The opinions of clerics, university professors, and teachers of Islamic studies were highly rated in the field of the role of electronic media in peaceful coexistence. The study recommended the following: The necessity of working to develop the cyberspace in a way that promotes peaceful coexistence between religions, making the language of discourse in the cyberspace reinforce the approach of moderation and moderation in a way that serves the peaceful coexistence between different religions.

Keywords

• Cyberspace
• Peaceful Coexistence
• Religions

20.1001.1.26767619.2017.4.10.3.1

Main Subjects

• Inter-Religious Dialogue