The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (the Hai'a) is holding next week a training program on “dialogue and persuasion skills” for 20 members of its staff. The course, which is being held in collaboration with King Saud University, follows similar ventures to improve staff skills. “We have previously conducted an English-language course for 15 Hai'a members and a course in computers for 15 trainees,” Abdul Aziz Al-Tuwaijri, the Hai'a head of General Administrative development, told Al-Jazeera newspaper Friday. Other courses have involved media organizations to acquire skills such as “professional journalistic writing” and “principles of field work”, Al-Tuwaijri said. “One hundred fifty of our staff are currently in the seventh week of a preparatory training program with the Higher Institute for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice at Umm Al-Qura University,” Al
