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Meanwhile, the second plenary session co-organised with ICON- Center for Global affairs featured two panellists who spoke along the lines of the session theme on ‘Cultural Dynamics in Policy Making’. Dr Abdul Razak Baginda explores the varied response of Malaysian leaders to significant historical events in the country and other nations in the region, in particular, Indonesia and China. Dr Roy Anthony Rogers, on the other hand, discusses the diversity that is ASEAN and the road towards regional unity.
There were six parallel sessions carried out during the two-day conference. Presenters from various background presented their papers on the three subthemes: Cultural Understanding and Diversity, Peace, Heritage and Security, and Diversity in Education. Some of the interesting presentations include Ms. Premananthini, who shared how yoga can be used as a way of life, extending beyond exercise and meditation. While explaining, Ms. Premananthini demonstrated some yoga poses and encouraged the audience to practice some yoga moves with her during the presentation. Ms. Dian, one of our presenters from Indonesia, explores the issues and challenges of the Indonesian language and the inherent difficulties that could lead to conflicts within the society. Dr Andrea from Maastricht University shared her study on the success and failure of teaching the holocaust to Israeli’s, Palestinian Arab citizenry.
All in all, it can be said that the conference successfully achieved its objectives as participants truly enjoyed and has gained much from their learning experience at IConCiDi 2017.
Dr Abdul Razak explaining on the subject of Malaysian Foreign Policy
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