The role of return marches in promoting national unity and ways to activate it. A field study on Palestinian university students

Dr. Mahmoud Abdel Majeed Assaf

Assistant Professor of Foundation of Education- Gaza, Palestine

Abstract:

The study aimed to identify the degree of appreciation of a sample of university students for the role of the marches of return in the promotion of national unity, and to formulate some proposals to activate this role, and to achieve this researcher followed the descriptive analytical method by applying a questionnaire consisting of (44) paragraphs distributed over four areas: (politically – religious – Socially and culturally (232 students) from Al-Azhar University, Islamic University in Gaza City. The results showed that the degree of appreciation of the sample of the role of return marches in the promotion of national unity was moderate at a relative weight (52.40%), where the field (cultural) came first, and the field (religious) in the last, There were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores attributed to the sex factor, while there were differences attributed to the party support factor (organizational) in favor of the independents, and the faculty factor in favor of the humanities colleges and Sharia faculties.

The study recommended the necessity of networking on the international scene and building alliances and activating the role of refugees in the external arena to turn the marches to the international scene, and presented in a unified national form.

Keywords:  Role, Marches of return, National unity, Students, Palestinian Universities .

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