In an important conference of National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Dr. Hossam Badrawi gave the key speech in the session assigned to the role of educational institutions in combating the challenge of violence, terrorism and hate speech in modern societies. The session continued for 2.5 hours, presided by Mr. Mohamed Fayek, NCHR President, Dr. Mofid Shehab, Former Minister and Mr. Mohsen Awad, NCHR member.
Dr. Badrawi’s paper focused on changing the form of education by providing knowledge and transforming educational institutions into an ambience that expands to accommodate children and youth for consecutive 18 years. Youth affection is influenced by what they experience, not a curriculum taught or a speech given to them.
Dr. Badrawi expressed the importance of combining education, culture, media and youth files together within the vision of building man with frequent accumulative messages, concerning renouncing violence, respecting pluralism, accepting differences and respecting citizenship and rights.
He also stated that integrating the concept of rejecting hate speech and renouncing violence in educational institutions lifecycle would not come by itself, but through agreed policies and in the framework of the 21st century skills which became one of the goals of being in an educational institution.
Dr. Badrawi discussed the learning methods that would appear in the upcoming years including using new technology approaches, artificial intelligence, and intelligence genes intervention and modification. “If such does not go along with integration of the concept of love, renouncing hate and respecting rights, we may succeed in developing education and also creating scholars and innovators but in terrorism, making the challenge greater and larger. This must be the concern of humankind by identifying the human value groups that we would like to instill in the affection of our children. As we should not leave it to chance or to pure profitable economic objectives of what technology offers to education or what art offers to entertainment.