Teaching peace: Karachi High School principal wins UN award for work

Parveen Kassim started the popular ISEO competition.


Press Release April 02, 2012

KARACHI: Parveen Kassim, the principal of the Karachi High School, has won the global educators award at the 7th annual United Nations conference on Teaching Peace and Human Rights that concluded on Friday.

In particular, Kassim’s work as the chairperson of the International Schools Educational Olympiad (ISEO) was commended.

The two-day conference gathered teachers, administrators, future leaders and non-governmental organisations from across the world to acknowledge leadership in education. It served to highlight the role of educationists from Karachi, Chennai, Burnaby, Mexico City, Manila, and the US, whilst highlighting inspiring initiatives world-wide towards promoting and teaching peace within classrooms.

Kassim was nominated for her contribution over the last two decades towards bridging distances, and gathering students from Pakistan and across the world, including youth from India, the UK and Australia on a single platform to boost shared learning, competition and healthy interaction through the yearly ISEO. The award acknowledges her commitment to promote innovation in education in Pakistan by extending learning across borders and beyond the realms of the classroom.

Kassim was also acknowledged for Karachi High School’s active partnership with the British Council’s Connecting Classroom initiative aimed at forging lasting partnerships among schools in the UK with others around the world.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 2nd, 2012.

COMMENTS (27)

Talha | 11 years ago | Reply

She is our principle :))))))))))))))))

Ch Shahzad | 11 years ago | Reply

Asslam o Allaikum, it is quite gud that we r hearing gud news abt PAK. May ALLAH guide her. Why some of u r objectioning madrassas? When muslims were on edge there were madrassas where scientific n religious both educations were compulsory... With the invasion of subcontinen this was al stoped immediately... Ane these our english men start to make diff madrasas which were only teaching religion,and they make uni etc for worldly education. They themself make 1st madrasas. The only objection i hav with madrasas is to review their course bcoz they shld have to go with wat there fathers were going. Plz try to understand westerners mentality "divide n rule" . And i m also surprised with "inferiorty complex of ppls of subcontinent"

Both educations r necessary for us even as muslims but our society hav been divided

May ALLAH protect us n give us hidaya...

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