By Moutaz Mathi.
Tripoli, 30 September 2016:
The Education Ministry has launched a project aimed at spreading a culture of tolerance among students in Libyan schools. The ministry hopes to eradicate the root causes of enmity and violence that are currently damaging the country.
The project is the brainchild of the Libyan Elders’ Council of Reconciliation which suggested it to the ministry. It will be involved in project.
“The council has considered the dangers of the psychological negative affection of wars on people in general and young people in particular. We have found ourselves called to do something against this and try to establish an atmosphere of peace and tolerance and combatting hatred in schools,” the head of the council, Mohamed Al-Mubasher told the Libya Herald.
The project has set some priorities to start with. “We will start in those places which directly suffered from fighting, and then we will extend our scope nationwide,” he said.
In spreading a culture of communal understanding and acceptance,
Mubasher noted programmes of communal understanding and respect in New Zealand and Australia and said that Libyans should learn from experience of others.
“The Ministry has started already to design workshops, seminars and other activities which will start with the beginning of the school year,” Ramadan Al-Ghadwi, the media office manager at the ministry and the head of the project’s implementation committee, told this paper. “In addition to producing books and publications, we will be promoting the idea of peaceful coexistence by presenting people’s experiences of living in love and tolerance with others.”
