Future Foresight can Defeat Extremism by Tackling Dangerous Ideologies Before They Take Hold

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Future Foresight can Defeat Extremism by Tackling Dangerous Ideologies Before They Take Hold

Dubai, December 6, 2016 - Future insight offers among the very best devices to fight unsafe beliefs at root, inning accordance with the panellists attending Future Foresight-- Versus Ideological Extremism, the fourth session of the 3rd yearly Knowledge Summit, organised by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Structure (MBRF)-- member of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives - held in Dubai from December 5-7 at the Grand Hyatt.

Regulated by Dr Sultan Mohammed Al-Nuaimi, faculty member at Abu Dhabi University and PhD in Iranian Political Thought, the panellists checked out the link between ideological idea and extremist activity-- and just what can be done to fight it.

Jawad Anani, Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs and Minister of State for Financial investment Affairs, mentioned the thinker John Locke in clarifying what he saw as the origin of the problem. "Knowledge is the ability to select between two contradictory points of view, he stated. Addressing what makes up knowledge, for that reason, is an important part of the equation, he said. "If the underlying extremist ideological background is not extracted ... it will ultimately poison the minds of our young people."

He stated future foresight experts needed to bear in mind the "3Cs" in their fight against extremisms. First is Context: for example, the context of the realities in the Middle East, and just what that implies to young minds. Secondly is Content-- the twisted messages and false information spread out by extremists. Third is Stations, and Anani stated it was imperative that the older generation discover how to interact with youths using the more recent, liked communication networks such as social networks.

Theodore H. Kattouf, President & Chief Executive Officer AMIDEAST and the former United States Ambassador the UAE and Syria, said the analysis industry had taken a hammering, after cannot anticipate either the seismic event trembling the west-- Brexit and the political election of Donald Trump - or the repercussions of Western military treatments in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. However, he stated future insight was not concerning forecasting events, yet much more regarding determining patterns. A democratic backlash versus the dizzying rate of technological adjustment, globalisation and immigration was among these trends, he stated.

The region, he claimed, should develop 60 million jobs by 2020-- each time when the world is taking a look at shedding some 2 billion works by 2030. This tense scenario, he said, recommends abundant ground for extremists. The key to combating extremism stocked education, he claimed, and particularly in encouraging vital thinking abilities-- without which young people would lack the capability to resist extremist ideological backgrounds

Ahmed Ouzzi, Professor of Higher Education and Scientific Research study at the University of Mohamed V in Rabat, stated that traditional structures, including the family unit and education, are stopping working to maintain up with the more youthful generation. "Globalisation, across borders, did not pay enough attention to citizenship and values," he claimed. "We are not outfitting students with the appropriate values-- and there is a broad gap in between parents' expectations and the fact experienced by young people.

" There is currently no alignment between just what a student is finding out at school and what society requires."

He mentioned the example of Finland, where the education system has this year dropped all traditional subjects from the educational program, in favour of an alternative approach to discovering. "The only points that will certainly work to a student today are creative thinking and innovation," he claimed.

Very successful British writer Ann Morgan sounded a hopeful note, based upon her experiences of generosity across borders when she began her ambitious project to review a book from every country on the planet in 2012. "Storytelling is an universal human reaction - tales have the massive power to connect us throughout geographic, spiritual and economic divides," she claimed. "Stories enable us to consider the world with various eyes."

She believes the source of extremism stems from a fear of "others", and the silencing of various other viewpoints. "If voices are not listened to, then there is no discussion, and no possibility of progress," she said.