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Students come face-to-face with conflict

September 30, 2010
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Christian university students learn to resolve conflicts at a workshop in Loikaw

UNIVERSITY students in Myanmar got to learn about the uglier side of life and how to change it for the better recently during a two-day workshop about conflict resolution.

The University of Christian Fellowship (UCF) Association organized the program Sept. 27-28 in Loikaw. Twenty-six students took part in the workshop.

Conflicts can happen among Christian churches, in our families and schools, so the purpose of the workshop was to promote unity, said organizer Pastor U Tin Htut Ohn.

The students learnt about different types of conflict and how to resolve them by building good relationships through communication.

“The aim of the workshop was to teach students to solve conflicts as soon as they encounter them,” said UCF president Saw Aye Cho

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