Youth Workshop: Together to Prevent Extremism and Promote Dialogue
When, local time:
Sunday, 19 November 2017 - 9:00am to Monday, 20 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Where:
Egypt, Cairo
Type of Event:
Category 7-Seminar and Workshop
Contact:
Jana El Baba, j.el-baba@unesco.org
Organized by UNESCO in cooperation with the League of Arab States, Al-Azhar, and the World Organization of Al-Azhar Graduates, the Workshop will gather young people form Arab and non-Arab countries to discuss the issue of extremism, in Cairo, Egypt, from 19 to 20 November 2017.
The Workshop will focus on the following topics:
- The use of religious texts to legitimize violence;
- The factors driving youth to join extremist groups and how to address them;
- Dialogue as a means to defuse extremism, where historic and contemporary examples of societies that have enjoyed peaceful co-existence will be highlighted.