Watani UAE has launched four solutions that contribute to the eradication of terrorist ideology, promoting tolerance in societies, including respect for human rights, the elimination of ethnic and religious discrimination and the reduction of economic marginalization.
In a recent report, Dr. Amal Bahloul, Community Affairs Advisor at the Foundation, stated that the UNESCO Counter-Terrorism Bureau has identified four elements to combat terrorism: "Measures to address the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism, practical measures to prevent and uproot terrorism, The capacity of States to prevent and combat terrorism and to strengthen the role of the United Nations system in this regard and respect for human rights and the rule of law as the cornerstone of the fight against terrorism. "
The report states that UNESCO has identified the necessary steps to implement measures to address the conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism: "Examining the conditions conducive to terrorism, namely the demilitarization of victims of terrorism, the absence of the rule of law, violations of human rights and discrimination on the ethnic, national and religious grounds , Political exclusion, social and economic marginalization, and lack of good governance. "
In order to eliminate ethnic, national and religious discrimination, dialogue, understanding and peace between peoples and religions must be promoted, non-defamation of religions and respect for their beliefs should be committed to eradicating poverty, promoting sustained economic growth, achieving sustainable development and prosperity. Individuals.
The report added that in order to eliminate social marginalization, more work should be done on social integration and the elimination of unemployment among young people. Marginalization is followed by the feeling of injustice that produces terrorists and recruited young people. The elimination of the problem of stripping the victims of terrorism requires human rights. Terrorism and their families, and to bring their lives back to normal.
The report spoke of models of hate-oriented, slightly tolerant personalities, such as a "closed personality," in which the individual can not change direction, while adhering to specific behavioral patterns and difficulty changing them, as well as being unable to rebuild a personality To solve a specific problem that has many solutions, and the character of this character is rigid and possess a dimension of cognitive and emotional and behavioral short-term, as well as extremism in the opinion of the opinion, and the tendency to solutions categorically, and the division of things to two parties and the lack of productive efficiency,
The report also spoke about the "rigid personality", explaining that it is divided into two types: the first is characterized by motor hardness, emotional and intellectual, and the second is characterized by intellectual stagnation, and is characterized as intolerant, and has strong trends and resolute, and adopt authoritarian trends, with the tendency to join parties and extremist movements.
The report pointed out that what made the youth extremists in their responses, and their violence, exposed them to contradictory cultural currents and changing educational values, resulting in social, political, economic and educational problems that made young people surrender and withdraw and live in a state of isolation and extremism As a small group that bears no responsibility, and their reaction and responses came with this stubborn and rigid intransigence.
Double message
"The need for attention and awareness of the religious reasons that motivated the youth to hatred and violence, the most important of which is the widening gap between prevailing values and declared values, which gives a double message to the individual and makes him feel confused and worried," said Dr. Amal Bahloul, community affairs consultant at Watani UAE. The credibility of the other, whether the government or institutions, also increases the feelings and aggressive behavior of young and emerging.