Manama, June 12. (BNA) — Participants at the National Symposium on the Role of Schools in Confronting Violence and Sabotage”, organised by the Islamic Cultural, Educational, and Scientific Conference Organization (ICESCO) in association with the Bahrain Educational, Scientific and Cultural Commission (BESCC), have called for the need to establish a Council for the Prevention of Violence.

The panel, to be under the supervision of the Education Ministry, will be in charge of raising social awareness on the dangers of violence, and conducting varied media activities, including meetings, forums and plenaries for teachers, parents and students.

They also called for the need to activate the role of the Development Studies Centre through requesting it to conduct in-depth educational, psychological and social studies on violence and put forward the most effective ways to eradicate such a society-threatening danger.

This came as the symposium concluded here today.

The recommendations of the event included developing a strategy to ensure that students make optimum benefits from their free time, especially in summer, encouraging parents to assume their responsibilities through organising special training sessions for them, introducing the concepts of global citizenship, tolerance, peaceful co-existence and human rights in school curricular, which requires organising specialised training sessions for school leaderships and teachers in order to upgrade their performance in instilling the concepts of peace and rejection of violence among the school community..

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BNA 1602 GMT 2013/06/12