In the presence of academic, political and parliamentary elites, activists in the field of human rights, and the Chargé d’Affaires of the Armenian Embassy in Baghdad, Mr. Alek Garibian, the first dialogue forum was held at the Baghdad Center for Public Policy, the first dialogue forum on declaring a national strategy to combat genocide and developing a road map to formulate steps to criminalize and reduce it. The forum in which the Foundation participated Paths for Cultural and Media Development, the International Yazidi Foundation to Combat Genocide, the UNESCO Chair to Combat Genocide at the University of Baghdad, and the Baghdad Center for Public Policy, in cooperation with other partners such as the Al-Muhaqqiq Organization, which includes a number of judges, and the Otto Organization for Human Rights, aims to raise awareness of the dangers of hate speech, discrimination, and the violence that leads to To mass murder, as the first topic was discussed in the forum

The framework of the strategy and its cultural, media and educational contents was presented by the General Coordinator of the Masarat Foundation, Dr. Saad Salloum, and he spoke about the work of the Masarat Foundation in this framework over a period of 17 years in preserving diversity and combating hate speech and the research that established the field of genocide studies by the Masarat Foundation as its multi-part project. (One Hundred Years of Genocide). He also indicated that he had prepared a curriculum to teach genocide as part of the strategic vocabulary that would be applied in subsequent years.

While the second topic was presented by the head of the UNESCO Chair for Combating Genocide in the Islamic World at the University of Baghdad, Dr. Salah Al-Jabri, who spoke about the work of the chair and its role in the context of Iraqi universities and the importance of the Ministry of Higher Education and other concerned ministries paying attention to the work of the chair in support of its role in spreading the culture of combating genocide in society. The Iraqi.

The third axis was about the international dimensions of the national strategy to combat genocide, in which the head of the International Yazidi Foundation against Genocide, Mr. Hasu Hormi, whose organization currently holds an advisory position at the United Nations, spoke about it, indicating that the institutions concerned with launching the strategy are part of the Geneva International Coalition to Combat Genocide. Genocide, and that the elements of the strategy also relate to legislation, the judicial institution, and Iraq’s accession to some relevant international agreements. The dialogue forum, which was moderated by international activist Kamel Zumaya, head of the Otto Organization for Human Rights, was followed by open discussions by a number of members of Parliament, activists, diplomats, and academics.

  It is worth noting that the organizations concerned with launching the strategy, such as the Masarat Foundation, the International Yazidi Foundation against Genocide, the UNESCO Chair to Combat Genocide, and their other partners, such as the Al-Muhaqqiq Organization in Erbil and the Otto Organization for Human Rights, have been working on drafting the strategy for nearly a year, while work will be done in the next stage on Conduct national consultations with civil, university, and security institutions and various relevant official bodies and institutions, as well as the three presidencies in the country.