Training Workshop on International Heritage [Archives:2000/14/Business & Economy]

A workshop specialized in training associated schools’ teachers on teaching world heritage started in Sana’a on Monday 27 March 2000. This workshop, which was organized by the National Committee for Education, Culture and Sciences in collaboration with regional office for the UNESCO in Amman and French Ron Enterprise, continued for three days with the participation of 30 teachers.
Several speeches were addressed in the inauguration party by several officials and foreign personalities like Dr. Yahya Al-Shoa’aybi, Minister of Education, Eman Karae’e, Amman’s Regional UNESCO Office Representative and Mr. Ali Mohsin Al-Ameer, Secretary General of the National committee. The speeches pinpointed the scientific and technological flaws and their effects on natural, cultural and humanitarian heritage and praised UNESCO’s role in renovating and protecting this heritage and disseminating awareness among youth. They have also alluded to the Associated Schools Project that aims at teaching and explaining the idea of international heritage in schools’ classes and activities. This project seeks for consolidating human, moral, cultural and international aspects of education. Moreover, questionnaires had been distributed among the participants to expand and establish firmly the importance of protecting international heritage.
During the 3-day course of the workshop, working papers concentrated on many critical cases , some of which were:
-Natural, Cultural and international Heritage Protection Treaty that was presented by Fathiyah Al-Sowari. This treaty was ratified in the 17th General Conference in Paris in 1972. These are included in Articles 4-7.
-Establishing the Governmental International Committee for the Protection of Natural, Cultural and International Heritage is included in Articles 8-14.
-Establishing a natural, Cultural and international Heritage Protection fund is stipulated in Articles 15-18.
-International aid conditions and procedures: Articles 19-26.
-Education curriculums: Articles 27-28.
-Emphasizing the reports: Article 29.
-Concluding conventions: Articles 30-38.
Mr. Yahya Al-Hababi, Secretary General of the Local Heritage Museum presented a working paper. In his paper, Mr. Yahya concentrated on the role of the Local Heritage Museum in preserving the Yemeni Heritage. He talked about the dangers threatening of the loss and extinction of local artifacts. The Yemeni citizen has manufactured many decorative works made of gold and silver besides knitting textiles. This heritage gave the Yemeni citizen the glory and luxury. He has also mentioned the role of the museum in showing the Antegraphic heritage which requires a lot of work in order to gather and show.
Mr. Saleem Al-Areeki, Manager of the Science Administration in the National Committee of the UNESCO participated with a working paper titled “Environmental Tourism”. In this paper, he explained the concept of environmental tourism. It includes having walks in natural areas for entertainment, rest and enjoying beautiful sceneries as well as practicing several sports that do not harm nature like watching animals and climbing mountains. In addition, Mr. Saleem discussed the revenues that the national economy would gain from tourism emphasizing the necessity of preserving nature from destruction. Therefore, he suggested some steps to be taken when drawing plans for tourism: gathering necessary information on all unique phenomena, then, dividing those according to their priority and importance so they can be used fully. Furthermore, he noted the need for estimating the tourist area and planning for it in order to create a balance between environment and tourism. Besides, he encouraged the setting of special standards to control the tourist flow and activities, specify the tourist areas and watching the area through continuous environmental research. Finally, his paper stated the positive and negative impact of environmental tourism.
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