Monday, August 13, 2012

Democracy Forum seminar: Lessons in tolerance


A recent seminar by The Democracy Forum at King's College, London debated how education can be used to fight — or fuel — terrorism.
Audience members at The Democracy Forum's June 22 seminar, King's College, London
The role of education in combating terrorism' was the theme of a recent Democracy Forum seminar held at King's College, London. The event was chaired by Dr William Crawley from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, and the list of distinguished participants and speakers included Stephen Hammond MP, Chairman of The Democracy Forum, and His Honour Judge Sir Mota Singh, the Vice-Chairman; Professor Jack Spence OBE from the Department of War Studies at King's College, London; Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy of Islamabad's Quaid-e-Azam University; G Parthasarathy, former diplomat and visiting professor at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi; Shiraz Maher, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR); and Mushtak Parker, Editor of Islamic Banker magazine.

After a brief introduction by Dr Crawley, Stephen Hammond offered a short overview of the topic, considering definitions of education such as the 'process of nourishing or rearing' and a 'systematic extension of learning'. He concluded that access to education meant access to prosperity, and was a means of deflecting people from the path to terrorism.

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