Peaceful coexistence termed need of hour

The Christian Study Centre (CSC) and its Community Concern Group (CCG) organised a one-day training session with teachers on “Social Harmony and Integration in Educational Institutes” at the Gymkhana Complex in Sargodha on Tuesday.

The aimed of the training session was to address the issues of discrimination in educational institutes and fostering relations among students from different communities.

A member of the DHRC, Sanawar Balam, said that this training session was supposed to be helpful in building capacity of the teachers to highlight the importance of social integration and peace for a peaceful society.

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Anum Khan, a professor at a university, said, “We are all aware of the important and effective role of teachers in nation-building and inculcating moral values in their students.”

Given the current situation of harmony and social cohesion among different sections of society, the efforts of teachers to promote social integration and harmony in educational institutes were the need of the hour, she said. On the occasion, a member of the CCG, Kainat Nadeem, while addressing the participants of the training session, said that the CSC had also been trying to promote interfaith relations and peaceful coexistence among youth leaders for a peaceful and cohesive society.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2023.