Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article
Authors
1 Associate Professor of International Relations and Faculty Member, Department of Political Science, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran
2 Master student of political science, Yasuj University, Yasuj, Iran
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the content of the wills of the martyrs of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces to understand the motivation of the martyrs in the holy defense. The importance of this research goes back to two issues; First, the lack of uniform research on the martyrs of the province, and second, the need to be aware of the motivation of the martyrs to analyze the events, as well as proper planning to prepare for the defense of the country. The main question of the research is what was the motivation of the martyrs of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad provinces to participate in the Iraq-Iran war? Is it possible to make a connection between these motivations and variables such as age, place of residence, sending unit and level of education? The research hypothesis considers three categories of religious, national and revolutionary motives. To test this hypothesis, two methods of quantitative and qualitative content analysis were used and the wills of 1717 martyrs of the province were studied. According to the research findings, religious motives had the most role and 70.37% of the province's martyrs with religious motives, 28.5% with revolutionary motives and 1.13% with national motives participated in the holy defense. Also, no significant relationship was found between the variables of literacy, location and deployment unit and high religious motivations. Distance from the capital, inactivity of political parties, little revolutionary background, traditional province context, lack of access to media and tribal culture seem to have played a role in reducing national and revolutionary motivations.
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