Study And Explanation of factors and resources of tension and conflict between administrative divisions units (Case Study: Fars Province)

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Authors

• zahra Ahmadipour ¹
• Hassan Jafarzadeh ²

¹ Professor of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² PhD in Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22067/pg.2023.82656.1217

Abstract

A study of local tensions and conflicts between the political-administrative territories shows that these tensions have been on the rise over time and the dimensions, scope and severity have increased. Among the provinces of the country, Fars province is one of the territories that have made the most changes in the field of national divisions in recent decades, and at the same time, tensions and conflicts have expanded to the provincial and inter -provincial levels. The growing trend of local conflicts between political-administrative territories is due to the existence of contexts, contexts, forces, and factors that play an important role in their creation and role. Therefore, in this study, the most important factors and sources of tension and conflict were extracted between the political-administrative territories using a descriptive-analytical method. The statistical population of the study included official documents, news sites, news agencies and portals of government and nongovernmental organizations, and the subject -related research that were all studied. At the research area of the study (Fars province), about 44 stressful and conflict issues were analyzed in the form of 25 provincial stress issues and 19 inter -provincial stress issues. The analysis of the findings of the study showed that all the components of the extracted were involved in the creation of tension and conflict between the political-administrative territories of Fars province at both the provincial and inter-provincial levels.

Keywords

• Tension and Conflict
• State Division
• Political - Office
• Fars Province

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