The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has held a training workshop on reducing violent extremism through education in Iraq in cooperation with UNESCO.
In his speech, the Director-General of the Studies, Planning and Follow-up Department, Dr. Ihab Naji Abbas, said that the Ministry of Education is working with international organizations interested in eliminating extremism by organizing courses and scientific workshops to develop specialized staff to reduce this phenomenon and work to lay the foundations of communication and community peace and the rejection of hatred.
For his part, the Associate Director of the Reduction of Violent Extremism Program at UNESCO, Mr. Hammam Talal, indicated that UNESCO, through its cooperation with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, seeks to train a number of leaders in universities in a number of Iraqi governorates on the topics of critical thinking, media and information literacy to eliminating extremism violent violence through education in Iraq.
The workshop included training programs on how to verify the authenticity of news information using information verification techniques, media messages, and mechanisms of understanding, analysis and evaluation.
