منطقة الجوف-جامعة الجوف

Introduction

Building a strong institution is to provide rule of law, support economic growth and reduce poverty through basic service provision. This, we assume, will enable sustainable development too.

Compassion and a strong moral compass are essential to every democratic society. Yet, persecution, injustice and abuse still run rampant and is tearing at the very fabric of civilization. We must ensure that we have strong institutions, global standards of justice, and a commitment to peace everywhere.

Government institutions play an important role in shaping and incentivising the way society and organisations behave by setting the ‘rules of the game’. These rules guide economic and political interactions, determine how goods and services are delivered, shape how budgets are spent, and regulate the justice system. But, by themselves, these rules are not always effective. When rules are not enacted and enforced by effective and trusted institutions, then resources are wasted, services aren’t delivered, and people (especially the poor) do not receive the required protection.

Furthermore, the World Bank and the UN show that institutional arrangements promote poverty reduction in a diverse range of socio-economic contexts. Yi Feng and Janine Aron demonstrate how institutions are important for economic growth. And the 2011 World Development Report makes a strong case for the link between weak institutions and conflict, showing that ineffective governments are more likely to experience extreme violence.

Building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions is painstaking work. As Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 recognises, though, it is vital. Institutions can and do play an important role in reducing poverty, improving the rule of law and increasing economic growth. Despite the difficulties, therefore, the UN’s efforts to build better institutions are central to progressing towards the SDGs.

On the other hand, Saudi Arabia pursues to enhance its regional and global standing by combating corruption in all respects, and all forms of violence especially child abuse. To that effect, the Kingdom has launched a series of initiatives and programs.

With the alignment of Saudi Arabia government, Jouf University believes that a step change is required – one that learns from past lessons and develops new ways of thinking about what works.

Spreading the culture of moderation, moderation and combating terrorism includes: The University signs a memorandum of cooperation with the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue
Al-Jawf University signed a memorandum of cooperation with the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue, in multiple intellectual fields, on Monday morning, and the memorandum was signed by His Excellency the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Ismail Al-Bishri, and the Secretary-General of the Center, Dr. Abdullah Al-Fozan.

The MoU focuses on cooperation in the field of spreading the culture of moderation and moderation, and combating terrorism, extremism and racism in society, through direct awareness campaigns that will be supported by the two parties in their educational and sports facilities during various events and activities, as well as awareness campaigns through social media, as well as through studies and research, where the two parties will allow the exchange of visits between researchers and specialists from both sides, to consult with each other, and to conduct joint scientific research and applied and field studies in the field of Rooting the approach of moderation and moderation and combating extremism and extremism in all its forms, in accordance with the regulations governing it.

The two parties will cooperate in the field of various cultural, sports and awareness programs and activities, such as panel discussions, lectures, seminars, programs, competitions, forums, festivals, sports activities and others) to benefit the youth of the region.

Cooperation will also be carried out in providing joint training programs and workshops specialized in the field of moderation and combating extremism, and the two parties will support and strengthen moderation programs and activities that fall under their respective attention, in addition to working on the implementation of the executive training plan that has been agreed.

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Launch of the Seminar on Consolidating Values in Saudi Society at Al-Jawf University
Under the patronage of the Acting Rector of Al-Jawf University, Prof. Dr. Bader Al-Zaree, the work of a seminar on "Consolidating Values in Saudi Society as a Legitimate and Systemic Vision" was launched at the Faculty of Science and Arts in Qurayyat Governorate with the participation of a group of specialists from inside and outside the university.

Dr. Al-Zaree gave a speech in which he expressed his thanks and gratitude to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and the Crown Prince of the Secretary for their continuous support to the University in its ambitious national journey, and also extended his thanks and gratitude to His Highness the Amir of the region, His Highness the Deputy Amir and His Excellency the Minister of Education for the constructive guidance, support and continuous follow-up of all its activities and programs, stressing that this seminar comes as a contribution of the University in the service of the dear homeland and its wise leadership, in a modern and important topic in line with the interest and directives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. His faithful Crown Prince was supported by God, who are continuing the march of the homeland as it began since the time of the founder, may God rest his soul.

He added: "In organizing this seminar, Al-Jawf University is fully aware of the importance of its leading role scientifically, culturally and socially, and the effective contribution to the achievement of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, in continuous programs that seek to combat extremist thought and spread tolerance, coexistence and openness to all cultures in accordance with the teachings of the moderate religion pursued by our country and for which global efforts are made through interfaith dialogue and the provision of effective initiatives and unique experiences in combating extremism, until the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has become a global model to be emulated and benefit major countries."

Dr. Al-Zaree expressed his thanks to all researchers from inside and outside the university and members of the organizing committee, looking forward to the symposium achieving its vision and objectives for which it was held and for the benefit of the country.

For his part, the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Arts in Qurayyat, Dr. Meshal Al-Anzi, gave a speech during which he stressed the college's endeavor to play its role in consolidating values, through these educational meetings in which ideas converge and work to achieve the values that the nation lives with its life and dies with its death, stressing that this seminar aims to come up with a strategic vision that contributes to the consolidation and promotion of values in Saudi society in an era when the winds of globalization are blowing from every side to try to impose the dominance of the optimal model culturally and morally on all societies.

Dr. Al-Enezi expressed his hope that the symposium will achieve its desired objectives in consolidating Islamic and national values among the members of Saudi society and circulating the giving word that is inseparable from serving the country and addressing its issues.

The member of the Shura Council, Dr. Fayez Al-Shehri, also delivered a speech to the participants, during which he expressed his thanks and gratitude to the University for inviting him to participate in this distinguished scientific event, pointing out that the establishment of this symposium confirms the University's keenness to enhance the role of scientific research in diagnosing modern phenomena, calling for investing the outputs of the symposium in everything that would enrich scientific research and consolidate religious and national constants in a manner befitting the ambitious status of our homeland.

Dr. Al-Shehri stressed that the dialogue between the participants in the symposium will have a great role in developing recommendations that contribute to enhancing the role of institutions in the development of values and help to employ media technologies in consolidating their pillars, expressing his hope that the participants will come up with important recommendations and a strategic vision that will contribute to supporting efforts to consolidate lofty values.

At the end of the opening ceremony of the symposium, the Acting Rector honored the speakers and participants of the symposium.

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With the participation of specialists from the regions of the Kingdom: Al-Jawf University discusses the consolidation of values in Saudi society legitimately and systematically
The sessions of the seminar on the consolidation of values in Saudi society discussed a legitimate and systematic vision" held by Al-Jawf University, represented by the Faculty of Science and Arts in Qurayyat, under the patronage of the Acting Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Bader Al-Zaree, a number of important axes from the legal and systemic aspects, and the first session, chaired by the Vice Dean of the Faculty of Science and Arts in Qurayyat Dr. Radhi Al-Ruwaili, "Values in the Sharia Perspective", in which the faculty member of the Faculty of Sharia Dr. Saad Al-Enzi participated, indicating that the rooting of issues is to return them to their roots and return them to their origins He added that one of the aspects of the legal rooting of issues is linking them to the rules of Sharia and values as an issue that has weight in the map of Sharia issues that lack in their rooting the rules of Sharia that regulate them, and preserve their moderation and moderation, and also talked about the five major jurisprudential rules, most notably the rule of matters with their purposes, the rule of certainty is still doubtful, the rule of damage is still there, the rule of hardship brings facilitation and the rule of custom is tight, giving a brief presentation of each rule with a statement of its impact on the consolidation of values.

Sharia Provisions of Values
After that, the faculty member of the College of Science and Arts, Dr. Khalid Al-Sharari, presented a paper entitled (Sharia Provisions of Islamic Values), in which he explained the Sharia rulings, obligation, desirability and passport, whether religious, moral or social values, pointing out that the Sharia texts have come by recognizing the virtuous values that were before Islam and complementing it, inferring this by saying (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him): (Rather, I was sent to fulfill the honors of morality), he added, adding that these texts came by ordering virtuous values that were not known before and forbidding what contradicts and violates them, citing some practical examples of those values by indicating their rulings, the forensic evidence for them, the statements of the scholars therein and the benign effects of their compliance and action in the world and the afterlife.

Prevention and protection of humanity
While the supervisor of educational training in the Department of Education of Mecca, Dr. Ibrahim Al-Harbi, presented a paper entitled (Preventive Values in Islamic Law), during which he explained that God created human beings and others and their instinct on Islam, and took the charter on them and then sent them the messengers - peace be upon them - reminding them of what they had been instinctively instilled, warning them of what is contrary to their instincts, and legislating for them a valuable religion that corresponds to their instinct and protects them, which leads to deviation from the path of normal human instincts, indicating that morals and values, the most prominent of which is the achievement of Piety in human life came as a reinforcement of this protection from deviation before it occurred and the command of everything that would preserve religion, presentation, mind, money and soul, explaining that this is evident in Islamic values and their care and care to guide the individual and society to everything that preserves his safety visibly and inwardly, adding that the wise street warned against following the steps of Satan and from decorating and obsessing him, indicating that he is the first enemy of mankind that must be warned of and ordered to take protective measures against falling into evil and corruption, calling for Spreading awareness among the members of society, citing some examples that prevention is better than cure and that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, noting that this is something that all rational people agree on, as it appears that people should take care of this in the safety of the body and soul, which harms it in its religion and morals, pointing to the proportionality of the methods of education represented in the story and setting an example and taking an example, dialogue and preaching with the goal of prevention and protection of humanity, which harms it in the world and the afterlife, stressing the need to take care of these methods to achieve these methods High goals.

Promoting Saudi Values Systems
The second session, chaired by the Dean of the College of Applied Medical Sciences in Qurayyat, Dr. Bader Al-Zahrani, included the axis of values in Saudi laws and regulations, which included a paper entitled "Values and their Systemic Applications", by Dr. Abdullah Saeed Al-Hariri, in which he referred to the interest of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the regulations, which include Islamic values, reviewing the most important articles contained in the Basic Law of Governance, which clearly drew values visible in the articles of the system and inherent in its spirit, which showed excellence in the regulations in force in force in the State.

Dr. Fayez Al-Shehri, a member of the Shura Council, also reviewed a paper entitled "The Value Outputs of Saudi Regulations: The Public Taste Regulation as a Model", in which he explained that the rapid communication changes and the weak role of social control institutions have imposed on our societies today some new behavioral patterns that may go beyond in some manifestations the concept of individual freedom to infringe on the public taste of society, adding: Based on this, many societies have sought to protect the obligations of public taste according to the cultural characteristics of each society and with the diversity of concepts, stressing Most human societies are almost unanimous in a set of values and commonalities that contribute to the promotion of the lofty sense of the importance of protecting the components of beauty, right and goodness within a higher moral system that educates the high taste of the individual under the auspices of society and its official and informal institutions, stressing that the State has enacted the list of public taste to improve the dignity of morality and help society in its major transformations and achieve a number of objectives, including: Reducing the manifestations of abuse of public taste in roads, facilities and means of communication, supporting awareness and organizational efforts aimed at protecting and promoting public taste in society, in addition to reducing voluntary jurisprudence by linking violations of public taste to a clear system that supports the prevention of all manifestations that offend public opinion while supporting efforts to establish public activities through a legislative system that promotes public behavior and promotes the concepts of public taste, as well as reducing acts and violations that would disturb or harm the appearance Public or general moral and material integrity or general tranquility in society.

Saudi Regulations
Dr. Noura Al-Rashoud, a faculty member at the Faculty of Judicial Studies and Systems at Umm Al-Qura University, presented a paper entitled "Values in Saudi Systems", during which she stressed that the systems in the Kingdom come from Islamic law, explaining that values and systems are integrated in all their aspects and each side supports the other for the perfection of their source, noting that this integration appears through a study of two theories, namely the theory of abuse of the right, considering that the system based on the provisions of Sharia believes that the use of the right should depend on The highest human values such as: justice, equality, charity, avoiding tyranny and corruption, invoking the words of the jurists: "The neighbor has moral and moral rights over his neighbor that makes him obliged to preserve his money and rights, and from him the neighbor cannot take from his home a factory that emits unpleasant odors or emits disturbing sounds or opens a window on a king," explaining that the second theory is the theory of necessity and defined it as a kind of facilitation and payment of embarrassment from people and considered it an important application of the moral direction that expressed The jurists expressed it in various terms, including Hadith (no harm and no harm), adding that this theory, which took the Saudi regimes derived from Islamic law, is in line with the latest theories of law and showed the advantage of integration between Islamic values and the provisions of the Saudi regime, which derived its provisions from Islamic law with full confidence in its source and justice, which led to the harmony of values with the rulings in absolute harmony.

Religious Institutions
The third session, chaired by the Dean of the College of Science and Arts in Tabarjal, Dr. Hamoud Al-Shammari, addressed the role of institutions in consolidating and enhancing value outputs, and included a paper entitled "The Role of Religious Institutions in Consolidating Values in Society", presented by the Director General of the General Presidency Branch for Scientific Research and Fatwa Sheikh Eid Al-Shammari, during which he explained that one of the objectives of the Kingdom's vision is to reach a vibrant society firmly rooted and solid in structure based on the values of moderate Islam, belonging to the homeland and pride in Islamic culture and Saudi heritage, adding Article XXIII of the Basic Law of Governance states: "The State shall protect the doctrine of Islam, apply its Sharia, order the good, forbid vice, and carry out the duty of calling to Allah", and talked about religious institutions and their role in consolidating values in society and presented a comprehensive definition of religious institutions, stressing that the combination of the roles of religious institutions and their summary is complementary and gradual, and continued: "The role of the Council of Senior Scholars is to describe, clarify and derive Islamic values from the Book and Sunnah is a legislative role, and the role of the Ministry of Islamic Affairs: Inviting people to these values and encouraging them in them, but the role of the bodies is to get people to adhere to these values, prevent them from violating them, and arrest those who insist on violating them, and the role of the judiciary comes after that by punishing the violator of the noble and virtuous values.

Media Institutions
While the official spokesman of the General Authority for Statistics, Mr. Mohammed Al-Dukhini, spoke in his paper entitled "The Role of Media Institutions in Consolidating Values", during which he stressed that the various media in our contemporary era are the greatest influence on the value system in terms of its consolidation, monstrosity or projection, noting that building future perceptions about possible transformations on public behavior is not a local problem for conservative societies even if they are more ferocious in them, explaining that it is a haunting phenomenon in societies open to cultures and behaviors. Especially when we know that the percentage of young Saudis who use the Internet in the age group of 15 years and over reached 98.81%, and some of them use it on a daily basis at least once by more than 93% and more than 97% of the same category use it in social networks and professional networks, the transformations will be faster than we imagine and perhaps even more dangerous.

The researcher pointed out that studies indicated that the percentage of families who own televisions in the Al-Jawf region, for example, reaches 95.59%, and that Saudis in general in the age group of 15 years and over who use television for cultural and recreational activities reached 64.16%, while the percentage of those who do not want to watch TV from the same age group reached 19.69%, pointing out that this indicates directly that media institutions, whether governmental or private, are no longer effective influencers. In exchange for new media, birth platforms and creative ideas as well as ease of access as requested by the target of influence.

Educational and Educational Institutions
At the end of the session, the Dean of the Complex of Girls' Colleges in Tabarjal, Dr. Mariam Al-Anzi, in her paper entitled "The Role of Educational and Educational Institutions in Consolidating Values in Society", addressed the values and their importance in society, the justifications for talking about values and their promotion in society and the classification, analysis and functions of values, as well as the role of educational institutions among students and effective methods to instill values in them, and the most prominent obstacles to education and ways to overcome them, stressing that education is an important necessity of life at the present time and attributed this to the deterioration of the side Values among individuals at the global level, where the moral decay represented by the spread of crime, corruption, the weakness of the human conscience and the primacy of the private interest, explaining that change can only bear fruit with social reforms that cast a shadow on the various forms and forms of social life, stressing that any social reform must start from the philosophization of the phenomenon and the variables related to it, calling for a review of the philosophical perspective when studying the educational phenomenon and its educational systems at the level of philosophies, inputs and practices, justified by saying: "Because it is in the nature of education to place special responsibility on educational science, which must be a representation of the rational educational perspective," she continued, adding: "If education is a living phenomenon concerned with the formation of man and the formation of his personality in all its aspects, it is also a standard educational methodological phenomenon that must reflect its usefulness in achieving the advancement and advancement of the nation."

The seminar witnessed a remarkable presence by students and interested students who expressed during their interventions the importance and depth of the topic.

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Addressed several axes: The Deanship of Student Affairs organizes a workshop on integrity and its role in society
The Deanship of Student Affairs, represented by the Nazaha Club, organized a workshop for university students on integrity and its role in the university community on the stage of the College of Science with the participation of a number of faculty members and students.

The workshop included several axes, including integrity from the perspective of Islamic law, addressed by Dr. Jumaan Al-Zahrani, pointing out that integrity includes the purity of the heart, soul and pocket, citing the Book and Sunnah, adding that integrity benefits progress in education and the educational process, and the advancement and development of society, and stressed the need of the university community for such events, providing many recommendations to students to achieve the integrity of the university community.

Dr. Nami Al-Sharif addressed integrity and good citizenship, stressing that the highest and highest degrees of integrity enable the achievement of the values of citizenship and the preservation of the wealth of the homeland, its security and security as the responsibility of all, adding that national values are a set of religious and social values, and indicating that the honesty between the ruler and the governed is the preservation of the homeland and the need for solidarity and solidarity of all in carrying out its security and guarding its Islamic and social values and its civilizational gains, adding: "The love of the homeland is an instinct inherent in the souls that makes man rest to stay in it and nostalgic for him if he is absent and defend him if he is attacked and angry at him if he detracts," stressing at the same time the need to develop awareness of duties and rights, promote the values of integrity, transparency and hatred of corruption, and spread the spirit of tolerance and acceptance of difference with the need to develop positive values in a society of justice, fairness, equality, respect for and acceptance of the other, good citizenship.

Dr. Ashraf Samhan touched on integrity from a legal perspective, pointing out that the conflict between integrity and crime is an ongoing conflict, explaining that the fight against corruption remains a lofty goal to reduce crime, highlighting the penalties stipulated in the law, pointing to the general legal, political and social aspects in the fight against corruption.

In this regard, Dr. Samhan also addressed the role of criminal policy in the fight against corruption, legal incentives for integrity, the fight against corruption and the criminal confrontation of acts that violate integrity, foremost among which is bribery, such as breaching the duties of the job at the request, hope or mediation, pointing to the penalties prescribed for bribery, which may reach ten years in prison, a fine of one million riyals, confiscation of the amount of bribery and removal from the job, in addition to the formation of the Anti-Corruption Commission and its competencies, headed by receiving reports of cases of corruption from citizens in a manner that Direct with the confidentiality of the whistleblowers, and the consecration of their independence as directly linked to the High Place.

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Meeting of Integrity Clubs Recommends Inclusion of Integrity in Education Curricula
Meeting of Integrity Clubs Recommends Inclusion of Integrity in Education Curricula

The third annual meeting of Nazaha Clubs, hosted by the Deanship of Student Affairs at Al-Jawf University in cooperation with the General Authority for Combating Corruption, concluded with recommendations that stressed in their entirety the importance of linking the culture of integrity to the main pillars of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 (a vibrant society, a thriving economy, an ambitious homeland), attention to community partnership between the Anti-Corruption Commission and various community institutions through Nazaha clubs, and the development of a guide that includes integrity culture programs on several axes, namely national identity, media, training, and society.

The meeting also recommended the need to submit a proposal to the Ministry of Education to teach the principles and values of integrity within the teaching programs during the stages of education, in addition to allocating educational awareness programs directed at the family, as the first building block of society, to build a culture of community integrity, as well as to spread the culture of integrity in the early stages of childhood.

The meeting stressed that Nazaha's programs in the coming period will be characterized by continuity, innovation, spread, and access to universality, and keenness to measure the level of culture of integrity in clubs and institutions periodically, and finally provide opportunities for volunteering in the various areas of integrity for all segments of society.

The sessions of the third annual meeting of Nazaha clubs included several axes that seek in their entirety to achieve the objectives of the meeting, and the first axis came on the protection of integrity and vital society with the participation of students Khalid Al-Maliki from Taif University, Ranad Al-Abdullah from Al-Jawf University, and Mohammed Al-Blaihed from the University of Hail, where they addressed the concept of integrity and the importance of applying it in accordance with the Kingdom's vision (2030) of building an ambitious homeland, free of corruption, and that the vital economy is subject to transparency and clarity.

In the second theme, the participants dealt with the protection of integrity and the thriving economy, and the students Ibrahim Al-Muhaimid from King Saud University, Meshal Al-Qadi from King Khalid University, and Abdul Karim Al-Otaibi from Majmaah University, addressing the conscious view of the Kingdom's vision (2030) of inclusiveness and expansion, and that a thriving economy can only be achieved by taking into account all the rationale of the vision, it is not possible to focus on one aspect and neglect other aspects.

The third theme was on the protection of integrity and the ambitious homeland, in which Yusuf Al-Hamid from Qassim University, Aisha Al-Enezi from Tabuk University, and Anas Al-Salami from King Abdullah University of Air Defense spoke about the role of integrity in the preservation of homelands, their development, development and prosperity, as guaranteed by the Kingdom's Vision (2030), which was keen to build an ambitious homeland to help the loyal people of this country in its development.

In the same context, an open session was held to discuss the future visions of the activities and events of Nazaha Clubs, in which Dr. Hazza Al-Fuwaihi, Dean of Student Affairs at Al-Jawf University, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Ammari, Undersecretary of the Deanship of Student Affairs at King Abdulaziz University, and Dr. Nouf Al-Otaibi from Princess Noor University, participated in which they talked about the role of educational institutions in instilling a spirit of integrity and self-control in the hearts of students, and how to address corruption through the development of various programs and means of persuasion.

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