Rewaq Baghdad Center for Public Policy, represented by a member of its Board of Directors, Mr. Ahmed Al-Hilu, participated over two consecutive days in the dialogue forum held by the Ashtar Center for Supporting Democracy in partnership with the Middle East Research Center in the holy city of Najaf, which was held under the title (Challenges of the Shiite-Kurdish relationship and their impact on state building), The forum, in which a Kurdish delegation representing academic, political, cultural and media elites from various trends in the region participated, as well as professors, politicians, parliamentarians, researchers and heads of centers from Najaf, Baghdad and other provinces, was discussed in which the problem of the relationship between the Shiite and Kurdish components and ways to address it away from the impact of political tensions and their repercussions, The nature of this relationship was also discussed in terms of political, socio-economic and security aspects and its effects on state building and political and societal stability, with an emphasis on the need to make room for the intellectual and cognitive elites to take the initiative in confronting the inflammatory political speech and hate speech broadcast and adopted by some media outlets and communication platforms. Social.