The shooting comes amid a debate in the South East Asian nation over gun control after a series of recent shootings, including one earlier this month that left seven people dead.
The Dong Xuan Center is an Asian market on an industrial scale, housed in a series of vast warehouses in the working class neighbourhood of Lichtenberg.
This is the first in a series of workshops which will hopefully extend to other Asian countries in the project in keeping with the overall objective of expanding prevention education through the media.
This conference falls within the context of a series of workshops aimed to enhance dialogues between philosophers in Asian and Arab regions to broaden intercultural communication, and strengthen the role of philosophy in public policy, and to promote the teaching of non-Western philosophies around the world.