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CYBER SECURITY MAGAZINE
April, 2020
Interview with the President of GCTP
Cyber security Magazine, April 2020
H.E. Ahmed Bin Mohammed AlJarwan
As Cybersecurity Magazine, we are focused on just that: Cybersecurity. However, sometimes it is necessary to step aside for a while and look at the bigger picture. This crisis is one of these times.
This is why we’re especially honored and thrilled to have had the opportunity for this interview with His Excellency, Ahmed Al Jarwan, President of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace.
Tolerance and Peace have always been much sought-after values for human beings, with a connected world even more. How do you see these values evolve online?
Cyber
Magazine:
Your Excellency, this initiative of Tolerance and Peace is essential and a beacon for the human race to practice tolerance through our differences. It tackles the plague of intolerance and fighting, which has persisted as long as human history is documented, head on.
Ahmed Al Jarwan:
Bridging the gap between cultures is urgent and necessary for peace, tolerance, stability and development. Different means have to be employed to leverage those values and one of the them is the use of technology, specifically the use of the internet, as it is now a crucial aspect in people’s life, and it is a great help in getting information for its seekers.
The Internet has evolved to a point where it helps people to gain self- knowledge about challenging personal issues such as ethics, morals and values by being connected and exposed to a broader community of peers and experts. Through search engines and social media platforms that have been available, individuals from across the globe have the opportunity to interact with people both inside and outside of their own communities.
Valuable dialogue between people from different ethnic, religious and political backgrounds can be facilitated easily, which can alter attitudes, change perceptions and encourage Tolerance and mutual understanding between different groups who didn’t have this chance of engagement with one another before.
Currently we can use this online technology to manage and prevent conflict, and build peace, by gathering great volume of data for free and then analyzing this data by Identifying and countering hate speech, identifying and analyzing people’s perception, identifying and mapping violent incidents, tracking violent and intolerant groups, and identifying the good examples of peaceful and tolerant behaviors. We have noticed an increase in the number of international research centers, like Stanford, Harvard and MIT, looking into the uses of technology in peace and conflict prevention, generating peace indicators and more useful information on the dynamics of conflict and promotion of peace.
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As Cyber
Magazine, we realize the value of communication via cyber space; therefore, your view is valuable to understand how such virtue of tolerance and peace can be promoted without getting diluted online.
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Cyber Security Magazine: Do we try to standardize how we determine tolerance across social groups in the world?
Ahmed Al Jarwan:
Tolerance is a necessary component of a Peaceful and stable world. The UN has already declared their objective “to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbors.” Furthermore, UNESCO has also clarified the meaning of tolerance. According to Article 1.1., “[t]olerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human...Tolerance is harmony in difference.” As the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, we have a crucial role to play in standardizing tolerance and peace in the world.
GCTP was established as an international platform to Promote tolerance and peace in the world. With our valuable competencies and based on our great values, we hold many responsibilities on our shoulders, we have set different tasks and activities, and created different entities to meet our major objectives:
§ to promote and instill the value of tolerance,
§ to develop the rules of international law to suit the needs of the international community,
§ to strengthen international peace and security,
§ to fight all forms of discrimination, racism and intolerance,
§ to encourage initiatives that provide a decent life for all,
§ to promote a culture of respect for human rights and freedom,
§ and to support sustainable
The International parliament of Tolerance and Peace, main representative body of GCTP, is composed of more than 65 parliament members from all around the world. It addresses women and youth, international relations, international law, promoting peace, and sustainable development issues. IPTP has held 4 successful sessions consecutively in Malta, Albania, Argentina and recently in Ethiopia. IPTP members tackle the world’s current issues, and work on proposing solutions by declaring statements, charters, and setting action plans to be implemented, all for the sake of a world of Peace.
The General assembly, our second main component, is composed of Peace builders and tolerance advocators and corporations (universities, NGOs, Research Centers) who have contributed to tolerance and peace and who have a fingerprint in promoting tolerance, and world peace through research and constructive projects.
Those NGO and individuals were selected based on their type of services covering different sectors such as women and youth, media and communication, social and cultural, sustainable development and academia. Many projects have been initiated building the roadmap of tolerance and peace.
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Our mission is to work on spreading the culture of tolerance and peace in order to address the issues of contemporary world peace, through the different components of GCTP such as the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace (IPTP) and the General Assembly.
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