Abstract

The Islamic State Organization in 2014 committed large-scale violations against International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law in Iraq and Syria. ISIS’s violations mount to war crimes and crimes against humanity by targeting social and ethnic groups of Iraqi community and particularly against Yazdies on August, 3rd, 2014. They committed mass killings, abducted thousands of civilians and raped women, recruited children, and destroyed religious structures and Yazidy cultural heritage.The ISIS attack had a huge impact on different aspects of life in Sinjar including the spiritual aspect in terms of killing, abduction, and captivity of Yazidies. The educational and cultural aspects were equally impacted, compared to other aspects. It can be said that ISIS had a full-scale influence on the educational and cultural aspects in the past few years after their onslaught. The number of people in the education sector has reduced in half, not to mention the deteriorated psychological state of the people working in the education and culture sectors. Culturally speaking, it can be said that ISIS ended all cultural activities in the years after their attack on Sinjar. Therefore, the impact and harm inflicted by ISIS to the educational and cultural aspects of life are tremendously reflected in the psychology of Yazidy individuals from Sinjar; the thing which can have an adverse impact on the behavior and education of the next generations of Yazidy community.

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