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| Yunes Shameli |
“To develop and expand, the activities of organizations should be attractive, not defensive,” said Yunus Shameli, criticizing the literature used by organizations belonging to the national movement in Iranian Azerbaijan. Speaking to Voice of America, the political analyst emphasized that organizations should operate based on collective thinking to present an attractive image.
“Such insulting, degrading, mud-slinging, and defamation-type behavior has been seen among Azerbaijani organizations and individuals in the past as well. The main reason for this can be attributed to social problems, namely the lack of democratic traditions in society...”
Shameli stresses that while these types of conflicts appear to arise between organizations, they are generally not the result of collective thinking.
“We call this a conflict between organizations, but when we look deeper, we see that it’s actually between individuals. Because an organization acts based on collective intelligence. By collective intelligence, I mean that the leaders of an organization can never express their personal emotions and thoughts in this way. Collective thinking is expressed in a more mature and democratic form. In such a way that it is generally attractive,” the Sweden-based political analyst stated.
He added, “In a developed organization, there is collective intelligence, and the organization is widely spread within society. Its leaders express the general thinking of society in a modern and cultured manner to make the organization attractive. But here, we see that our organizations generally exhibit a defensive behavior. This does not befit a cultured, modern organization, nor does it befit a cultured, modern individual.”
Yunus Shameli continued, “In the movement in Southern Azerbaijan, organizations have not developed enough to expand and gain more members. The increase in members would ensure that certain norms are followed within the organization, establish authority, and create literature based on that authority. I do not see such organization.”
The political analyst suggests that organizations with harsh and aggressive conflicts are often groups that are ideologically close to each other.
“When you pay attention, you will see that organizations facing off today, or in the past, with one another do not have differences in their programs or goals... Therefore, we often see that the issue is not a difference in objectives or ideological thinking. In many places, they are ideologically close.”
Link to the original interview in Turkish on the Azerbaijani section of Voice of America:
Yunus Şamili: Bu təşkilatların fəaliyyəti kollektiv düşüncə əsasında deyil