July 6, 2019
DHAKA – The 4-day long training-workshop will review the vital role played by Religious Leaders and Actors in shaping the mindset of the masses in a society and how to foster interfaith and peace-making dialogues, prevent conflict and hate messages and develop peace-building practitioners through proper training and motivation and using social media.
Save & Serve Foundation, along with UNDP-Bangladesh, has conducted a 4-day long training-workshop with Muslim Faith Leaders and Actors on Fostering Interfaith and Peacemaking Dialogue through Social Media.
The objective of the training-workshop is to enable Muslim Faith Leaders into Peace Practitioners by sensitising them to their practical and professional role in protecting and promoting peace and tolerance and fostering women empowerment in the society; capacity building and awareness raising on how to take the best advantage of social media in disseminating their peacemaking dialogues; providing in-depth knowledge to contemporize their perceptions on extremism, radicalisation, de-radicalisation, coexistence, peace and equality, and violence against women & children; facilitating an interconnected umbrella platform to share their dialogues peace-building issues and to address & counter negative stereotypes, prejudice and polarisation happening in social media.
The outcome of this programme is to develop a group of faith leaders who could address their local contextualised conflict issues and become peace practitioners for a tolerant society; develop potential content makers to help the youth to develop resilience against extremist narratives and obtain the social-psychological-theological knowledge and skills needed to engage constructively in a society; make strategic use of Islamic theology to counter the extremist ideologies and practices; develop and disseminate quality social media content which would foster interfaith and peace-building processes.
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