Cultural components of border residents and its role in sustainable security of Kermanshah border areas

The purpose of this study is the cultural components of border residents and its role in the development and sustainable security of Kermanshah border areas. The present study was conducted by a combined method consisting of two parts, quantitative and qualitative. The statistical population in the qualitative section included experts and specialists aware of the subject of research. The sampling method in the qualitative section was purposefully snowball, which reached a theoretical consensus with 30 elites and experts. A small part of the statistical population included citizens of border areas of Kermanshah province. The number of these people was 540 according to initial estimates. Data collection tools; Semi-structured interviews and researcher-made questionnaires. In a small part of the study, SPSS software was used. The results show that sustainable border security from the respondents' point of view has 19 semantic units in six common categories: "economic security", "social security", "political security", "environmental security", "military security" and "cultural security". Were located. On the other hand, the cultural dimensions of the frontiersmen included six dimensions of "participation and cooperation", "cultural cohesion", "two-way interaction", "insight and awareness", "ideology" and "zeal and chivalry". Correlation matrices between cultural categories and sustainable border security show that there is a significant and direct relationship between each of the components of this matrix. It can be said that the two categories of the core of sustainable border security and the six cultural components of border guards are in a dialectical relationship; In a way that in the bilateral interaction of these components, social order is formed at the borders and the border residents witness a kind of lasting security.