Addressing the academic session, Tim Curtis from UNESCO Office in Bangkok shared the Asia Pacific experience of and challenges facing the region in implementing the 2003 Convention.

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The Project SERV grant will help fund grief support groups for siblings who lost classmates, skill-based counseling for students suffering posttraumatic stress, security guards, an academic-booster summer session for students, and many other services.

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The Home Affairs Committee (1100) continues its look at the roots of violent radicalisation - the Committee spoke to Abu Hamza and other inmates at Belmarsh Prison - this session will hear from academic experts, then from David Anderson QC, Independent Reviewer of Terrorist Legislation and finally (at 12.15pm) from James Brokenshire MP, Minister for Crime and Security at the Home Office.

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Opened by Zola Skweyiya, former South African Minister of Social Development and current President of the MOST Intergovernmental Council (IGC) and the Chairperson of the MOST Scientific Advisory Committee, the Egyptian academic, Nazli Choucri, renowned scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), this session had three main highlights.

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