Manama, February 15 (BNA) Wimbledon player Lord Tariq Ahmed praised the courageous stance taken by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa in the Kingdom of Bahrain’s declaration on ensuring and developing religious freedom for all and protecting and promoting the rights of women and children. The spirit of mutual respect in pursuit of peaceful coexistence.
He had talks in Manama with Betsy B. Matheson, Vice President of the King Hamad Global Center for Peaceful Coexistence, Chair of This Is Bahrain, and several Young Ambassadors of King Hamad’s Faith in the Fellowship Leaders Program.
Lord Ahmed was briefed on the various educational programs and youth empowerment programs implemented by the King Hamad Global Center, such as the King Hamad Chair for Interfaith Dialogue and Peaceful Coexistence at Sapienza University in Rome, and the King Hamad Program for Faith in Leadership in cooperation with St. Bennett Hall at Oxford University. And the King Hamad Academy for Cyber Peace.
Matheson said that the King Hamad Peace Academy’s online programs were designed as tools to rehabilitate young offenders and showed great potential as a powerful addition to the new Alternative Provisions Program that delivers skills and knowledge that can be immediately measured and transferred into everyday life.
Lord Ahmed praised the global reach of the various educational programs of the King Hamad Global Center and highlighted the King Hamad Electronic Peace Academy and its use of real-life scenarios to help combat hate speech, extremism and radicalism and its effectiveness in reaching people’s minds. young people to give them an alternative path.
Lord Ahmed congratulated the young ambassadors of the Companions of Faith in Leadership of King Hamad on their recent graduation at St Bennett Hall, Oxford University.
He extended an invitation to the King Hamad Global Center and fellow Young Ambassadors of King Hamad Faith in Leadership to visit the House of Lords in London, urging them to continue sharing Bahrain’s model of peaceful coexistence to inspire hope in others as they begin their lives. Ambassadors’ trips around the world.