Ethnic, National and Identity Demands in Iran on the Axis of Justice and Development: A Grounded Theory Method Study among Five Major Ethnic Groups

Abstract

The identity/ethnic diversity in Contemporary Iran has co-occurred with the development of globalization processes and brought about interethnic conflict, Orientation of identity and seeking justice to eradicate discrimination and inequality in achieving social development. This is the issue that the present research has sought to investigate among the Persian (fars), Azeri, Kurd, Arab, and Baloch in Iran. The article has adopted a hybrid qualitative approach (GT), in thirteen provinces of Iran to extract and classify data in the following areas: religious identity and national identity, interethnic cultural borders, ethnic and national movement dead-end, and a peace-oriented approach to resolving the crisis.