DOHA: Senior Ministry of Interior officials, experts and researchers attended a seminar on ‘intellectual connection between generations… reality and expectancy’ organised by Juvenile Police Department (JPD) at the Ministry on Thursday.
The seminar at the Officers Club auditorium in Civil Defence Department building at Wadi Sail was part of executing recommendations of a forum on cultural gap between generations held last March.
The JPD Director Brigadier Ibrahim Eissa Al Buainain said that the seminar discussed the issue from different perspectives such as religious, legal, social and psychological.
Profesor Najat Abdullah, Director of Social Security Department and specialist in children programme chaired the first session, in which three papers were discussed.
The first paper on “considering religious and psychological discourse in intellectual connection between the generations’ was presented by Professor Mohammed Al Anzi, Social work specialist at Aspire Academy. The second paper was presented by Captain Bana Ali Al Khulaifi, head of Awareness, Media and Research Section at JPD on “the role of security institutions in the protection of children from deviant behaviour resulting from the intellectual disparity between generations”.
Dr Ilham Badr, media and public relations director at Qatar Foundation for Protection of Children and Woman presented the third paper on ‘communication skills”.
The second session was chaired by Professor Thoufeek Sakkar, a researcher at JPD and two papers were presented. Dr Abdul Nasser Saleh, Professor at Qatar University presented a paper on ‘social security in terms of social formats ... intellectual connection between the generations’. Maryam Al Jabir, Head of Juvenile and Families Prosecution head presented a paper on ‘legal procedures resulting from cultural disparity between generations’.
Later a film was shown highlighting the cultural gap between the younger and older generations.
The Peninsula
