COWACDI IN COLLABORATION WITH KAICIID DIALOGUE CENTRE PRESENTS ‘ROLE OF EDUCATION IN PEACE-BUILDING’

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DR. HAYATUDEEN MUHAMMAD ADAM.

TOPIC: PROMOTING COEXISTANCE AND DIVERSITY AMONG COMMUNITIES IN BORNO STATE TO ESTABLISHE DIALOGUE AND PEACE BUILDING.

He introduces the dynamics of violence and their difference in their context, in his keynote he mentioned some common features includes: ‘Breakdown of rules and laws of socio-economic and good governments, and increasing level of socio-economic inequality, social fragmentation, aggressive identity of politics and youth unemployment, accompanied by widespread of availability of small arms and the rise of organised crimes.

In his lectures he said; coexistence is a state in which two or more groups are living together while respecting their differences and resolving their conflicts non-violently, although the idea of coexistence is not new, the idea came into usage during Cold war.