Designing and Articulating the Model of Sustainable Nation-Building

Abstract

Throughout history, many nations are formed; nations with various specifications
 that relied on their favorable traits guided the next generation and formed the next
 communities. Sometimes they were in the form of nations but suffer from the lack the
 organization and without any collective wisdom and due to mismanagement they
 were doomed to extinction. So, the question is “what factors and requirements are
 needed to shape a virtue nation and guarantee its survival?”
 In this paper, we aim to answer the above mentioned question. In this way we tried
 to analyze the articles and literature in nation-building and good governance
 according to the grounded theory and content analysis to find out the factors and
 strategies for maintaining and recognizing nation’s existence. Thus a model
 consists of three components was developed and designed. In order to evaluate,
 regulate and modify the designed pattern, by using Delphi method and also
 referring to some elites in the field of research modeling, the model was presented
 to 17 elites in two-round Delphi. In the second round of Delphi, the model was
 approved by elites so sustainable nation-building model was redesigned as a gift
 of nation-building in the light of good governance. This model consists of 3
 components: a) obligations of initiating nation- building (general and specific
 national identity), b) strategies for continuing the processes for nation-building
 (social justice, effective government, citizenship, political socialization) and c)
 consequences of continuing existence of the nation and nation-building process
 (national integrity, public trust, permanent peace, balanced and sustainable
 development, national and international legitimacy).