The Center of Urban and Regional Planning for Postgraduate Studies at the University of Baghdad organized a workshop entitled (Urbanization and Urban Planning and its Impact on Strengthening the Intellectual Security of Communities), in cooperation with the General Directorate for Countering Intellectual Terrorism. The workshop comes within the extracurricular awareness activities of the Center in accordance with the principle of scientific and cognitive cooperation with all government institutions. The center’s professors, employees, graduates, and other academic guests have attended the workshop.
The workshop aimed to spread a culture of social peace and enhance the security of communities through planning, developing peace strategies, studying the social environment, and developing education before starting to design or build cities.
The Dean of the Center, Professor Dr. Kareem Hassan Alwan, started the workshop, delving into the role of urban planning in preserving the security of civil and rural communities and accepting the culture of others, which in turn ensures public stability by promoting continuous education and guidance and educating on the dangers of strife, in order to dissolve the factors of time and place in the face of knowledge, which achieves sustainable intellectual security and prosperity.
In addition, the representative of the Directorate for Countering Intellectual Terrorism, Dr. Ibtihal Saad Al-Qaisi, stressed the necessity of rejecting extremism, accepting others, and raising awareness of the concepts of peace through educational and learning platforms, as they are the creators of generations after promoting the concepts of moderation and moderation to achieve intellectual security and prevent its deviation. The organizations director in the Directorate of Countering Intellectual Terrorism, Aya Ali Al-Saadi, addressed the patterns of deviant thought and behaviors emerging and threatening to societies, such as cultural invasion and fanaticism in all its forms, and thus directing young people to adopt conscious, open thought to ensure stability and achieve the elements of citizenship, belonging, and the ability to create, develop, and urban growth.
The workshop concluded with the necessity of consolidating coexistence between the spectrums of society, so that the individual is properly prepared intellectually by taking the Islamic faith as a source for that preparation, to create a sound, influential, unaffected generation, as it is the crucible of change towards peace.
