AMMAN —
Minister of Political and Parliamentary Affairs Musa Maaytah said Saturday that key recommendations of
the Royal Committee to Modernize the Political System include empowering the youth,
educating citizens, respecting diversity, and promoting cultural dialogue.
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At the opening of the forum on civic
education and promoting societal peace and the culture of dialogue, which was
held by the Jordanian Center for Civic Education in cooperation with the
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), Maaytah stressed that partisan life cannot develop in
the absence of a civic culture that fosters effective dialogue across the
social spectrum and promotes the integration of youth and women into political
and partisan work.
The minister highlighted the importance of
encouraging dialogue, diversity and societal peace, as well as of rejecting
hate speech and developing legislation that regulates political life to create
an effective democracy based on political pluralism through the introduction of
civic education and democratic culture courses in primary school and university
curricula.
The draft constitutional amendments and
the elections and political parties’ draft laws currently being debated are
bound to create parliaments whose members have political platforms and then parliamentary
governments, in line with the royal directives, Maaytah said.
KAS Resident Representative in Jordan
Annette Ranko said that civic education creates a democratic culture, lays the
foundation for dialogue, and promotes democracy.
Director of the
Jordanian Center for Civic Education Mona Al-Alami said the forum aimed to introduce a human rights-based
approach and highlight the role of civic education in curbing violence and
extremism, and in deepening the concept of active citizenship in local and Arab
societies, stressing that the promotion of a culture of dialogue and peace is a
collective duty.
The two-day forum was slated to discuss several
topics, including civic education and its impact on spreading the culture of dialogue
and societal peace, the role of education and civic education in modernizing
society and building a democratic state, the role of religions in fostering
dialogue and peace, civic education, political developments in the region and
their impact on the work of political parties and youth participation in
political life, civic education and the role of Arab women in activating
dialogue and women's effective participation.
The forum hosts a number of experts and
consultants from Jordan and other Arab countries.
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