By Youssef El Kaidi
Morocco World News
Fez, May 14, 2013
The phenomenon of violence in Moroccan schools took more serious dimensions in the past few years. Press reports on sporadic bullying and verbal and physical aggressions against teachers in various schools in the country uncover a reality that jeopardizes the future of education. The elimination of such negative phenomenon entails the mobilization and active contribution of all stakeholders. It is in this respect that the Association of Cooperation for the Development and Culture of the Orient adopts a joint project aimed at raising awareness of all forms of violence in schools.
Funded by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development, this project aims to instill some 7,000 students from 12 institutions from Oujda under the Ministry of Education, with values ??encouraging non-violent practices towards each other and towards the teaching staff to foster a tolerant, peaceful and safe learning/teaching environment. The project also aims at protecting students who are victims of violence.
Through this project which is initiated in partnership with the Ministry of solidarity, the aforementioned association also seeks to establish the culture of rejection of violence in schools and put an end to aggressive communication which usually results in physical violence either between students themselves or between students and their teachers. Moreover, the project seeks to equip the teaching staff with conflict management and conflict resolution skills to better cope with tension and feud at schools.
The project will be implemented by a group of trainers who will from now on hold the responsibility of building bridges between all stakeholders as well as initiating educational and administrative frameworks for ways to limit the prevalence of this dire phenomenon, especially by adopting listening and mediation as effective means for conflict resolution.
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