course for school students on dialogue skills
Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue organized a training course for students ( both students and female students), on dialogue skills. The aim of this course is to enhance the value of dialogue and skills among the new generations. 48 students from 20 High School have attended this course.
During the training course, a number of conferences were presented:
- An introduction to the concept of dialogue, presented by Dr. Ahmed Abdul Rahim, Researcher at Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue.
- Fatima al-Harami’s presentation focused on : steps to prepare an effective individual, and how to deal with those who are different from us; and she also try to by answering the that philosophical question : why we created different?
- For his part, Dr. Badran Masoud ben Hassan, assistant professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies , in Hamad bin Khalifa University, gave a lecture highlighting the commonalities existing between different religions, which can represent a basis of dialogue among followers from different faiths .
- Nadia al-Ashqar, from Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue/DICID, coordinator of the event, said that these courses targeting school students, aimed to spread the dialogue culture and religious tolerance, inspired from Islamic teachings, in the school environment that can contribute to foster a dialogue culture among generation. Given that the Islamic ideology is open to different culture and civilizations dialogue, this was an opportunity to provide the students of the schools the skills of dialogue to enable them to acquire the culture of dialogue between religions and peaceful coexistence among adherents of different religions, acceptance and respect for others.
She added it was an attempt by the center to activate the shared religious values; and contribute to the treatment of human problems facing the world today, by focusing on educating young people skills to coexistence in a multicultural world and beliefs.
For his part, Dr. said. Ahmed Abdul Rahim researcher Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue: Dialogue is the principle of an Islamic fixed, it also human need, and a prerequisite for achieving peace and coexistence and acceptance of different as a Divine law, among the creation.
The importance of dialogue in that one of the most important means to call to Allah Almighty, and therefore the dialogue has become an urgent necessity more than ever.
In addition to that the dialogue achieves human brotherhood, that confirm the human conscience freedom respect, basis of the human dignity
from her side, the trainer Fatima al-Harami, said that the individual is an important building block in the family composition ; she added that the family is basic unit of society, and society building block of the nation, but nations can only developed through its youth power . So the importance of preparing an effective individual is prerequisite condition to our society development. That can be start by changing the basic things in the individual life.
As the difference in the creation is the Divine law, since the creation of Adam and Eve ( Male and Female), it is therefore of the continuation of the life; though differences, men and women began the reconstruction of the earth. In fact without differences, the world cannot be developed.
Fatima al-Harami also stressed on the need for fairness with others, and taking into account the benefit and the harm, and also the need to understand the interlocutor language .
It is worth mentioning that the call for dialogue has become an urgent necessity, imposed by the existing cultural conflicts, required by international problems and crises in a row, which showed many directions, seeking to achieve rapprochement and mutual understanding and respect.
It also been a lot of international covenants, conventions and declarations that uphold human rights, and criminalize wars, violence and dredge the arrogance and racism, which has contributed to the promotion of peace tendency, cooperation and dialogue, creating hope for a future in which looms heralds the demise of the theories of tyranny, and reverse the dominance patterns, and the increasing recognition religious pluralism, cultural and civilizational diversity.
It has therefore become necessary to bring up new generations on a culture of dialogue, and enable it to tools, to be able to coexist positively with the other hand, at the same time be consciously aware of the values of Arab and Islamic identity