The Civic Education Corps holds an awareness meeting at Gaza University
The Civic Education Corps held its first in-person awareness workshop, «Principles of democracy», at Gaza University — under the NED-funded «Preparing a Civic Intellectual» project.
- Date
- 2021-02-18
The civic-education body at Pal-Think for Strategic Studies carried out the first face-to-face awareness workshop, titled “The principles of democracy”, on Sunday, 14 February 2021, at the University of Gaza — within the project “Preparing a Civic Educator”, implemented by Pal-Think for Strategic Studies with funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
The meeting was led by the student Aya Abu Hatab and the student Abdallah Hasanein, who spoke during it on the concept of democracy, the stages of the crystallisation of the concept of democracy, the relationship between democracy and human rights, the elements of democracy, and the impediments of democratic transformation; the facilitators likewise spoke on freedoms and democracy's relationship to pumping new blood into the spirit of the political process.
The meeting was attended by a group of male and female students of the University of Gaza from different specialisations; for their part, the attendees affirmed the importance of democracy in the process of development and advancement in the state's sectors and its role in strengthening integrity and transparency.
