DOHA: A seminar held by the Ministry of Interior discussed the impact of generation gap on the Qatari society and explored ways to promote dialogue and communication with the younger generation.
The event at the Civil Defence Officers’ Club was organised by the Juvenile Police Department at the ministry. Senior officials and representatives of civil society organisations attended.
The Director-General, Public Security, Staff Maj. Gen. Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi visited an exhibition on the sidelines and said differences between generations have been existing for centuries.
“We must talk with our children and find ways for dialogue and understanding with them, because the fast evolution in technology and ways of thinking over the past few decades have created a bit of difference and adversity between what was available and owned by a generation of parents in the past decade and what is available and owned by a generation of children now.”
Brig. Ibrahim Essa Al Bouainain, Director, Juvenile Police Department, inaugurated the seminar and said children are a basic pillar of society. Qatar has given utmost importance to caring for them in all aspects of education and culture to help them achieve their physical, mental, behavioural and moral growth.
A documentary highlighted efforts of the department to address generation gap.
Qatari Orphan Foundation (Dhreima), Juvenile Police, Permanent Drugs and Alcohol Affairs Committee, Childhood Cultural Center, Social Protection Department, Punitive and Reformatory Establishments Department, Criminal Investigation Department, Drugs Enforcement Administration, Community Policing and Preventive Security Department are taking part in the exhibition.
The first session of the seminar, chaired by Brig. Dr Muhammad Abdullah Al Mohanna, Director-General, Police College, discussed cultural gap between generations and its implications for security and the role of security and legislation to reduce it. The Community Policing Affairs Section Head, Lt. Col. Ghanim Rashid Al Khiyarain, also spoke on the issue.
In the second session, Prof. Maryam Al Malki presented a paper on psychological, social and religious gaps while Dr Saadoon Al Rashid Al Hiyali spoke on cultural contrasts between generations and their educational and psychological effects on the community.
Prof. Dhabya Al Miqbali spoke on the role of the Social Protection Department in dealing with effects of cultural contrasts and Dr Sulaiman Al Hosni on the role of religious education in dealing with cultural gap between generations.
The Peninsula
