مسؤولية المؤسسة السياسية الأردنية عن العنف العشائري من وجهة نظر طلبة الجامعات الأردنية

Abstract EN

This study aims at exploring the Responsibility of the Jordanian political institution (the three authorities, laws and civil society political institutions) in tribal violence from university students’ perspective.

The study sample consists of 749 undergraduate students enrolled at public Jordanian universities in the fall of the academic year 2010 / 11.

To this end, a questionnaire of 20 articles of all potential reasons was purposely developed by the researcher.

Findings have shown that mediation and patronage factor is the most influential cause of tribal violence.

Results have also uncovered that six factors related to laws, government’s applications of laws, and litigation procedures were among the top 10 factors causing tribal violence.

The mean of these six factors, particularly and all factors, generally, was over 3.5.

This explicitly conveys that university students attribute tribal violence to the political institution.

While no statistically significant variations have been reported in terms of gender or college, the study has revealed significant variations attributed to student’s academic level.

Such variations have come in favor of advanced students in comparison with the first year students.