Welcome to #EURopendoors.
The most violent form of intolerance and discrimination in today’s Europe is the hate speech. A toxic mixture fake news is posing a serious threat to freedom and democracy. These phoenomena stand in contrast to the values and aims of the Europe, which is involved into spreading of human rights across the continent. Against this background, our project aims at facing these current challenges posed to a culture of democracy and human rights. Its mission and vision is to take action against hate speech answering to the need to raise awareness on the problem and to equip our communities to respond to these issues. It directly involves the citizens of Colletorto (Italy), and Saint Yrieix sur Charente (France).
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The project aims at tackling radicalization and extremism, hate speech and negative narratives by strengthening the role of the civil society organizations and local body, by equipping them with counter narratives, peace education, methodologies and strategies.
MethodologyThe project place a great emphasis on education as the surest antidote to hate, working to involve citizens on debates around the value of tolerance and democratic culture with ambitions to actively combat stigmatization of immigrants.
This project will guide the participants in identifying dangerous story-telling, to dismantle hateful narratives thus promoting democratic, intercultural engagement and civic participation of both citizens and non-EU foreign involved. |
The participation to this project of people from civil society with different background guarantees an interesting mixture and a different approaches to the common objectives of support local communities thus facing the current challenges posed to a culture of democracy and human rights. The double background (Italy and France) allows a different analysis of the migration in Europe and the different attitudes towards immigrants from the countries involved.
This project can also count on professionals coming from civil society specialized in non-violent communication and cultural mediation. The mission of this project is to take action against hate speech answering to the need to educate and raise awareness on the migrants issues. Through the foresees activities this project will generate solutions for communities that encounter difficulties in connecting with minorities they live with. It will promote their answering to the communication needs in terms of customized stories and alternative narratives with big impact that can influence the target group thus informing and raising awareness about the risks of prolific forms of intolerance, discrimination and xenophobia. ContextSociety should offer credible alternatives to violent extremism, including in terms of narratives, role models and opportunities for mobilization, such as democratic participation, civic engagement, access to health and social services and employment opportunities. Front-line actors, such as local body, civil society organizations have a special role to play as they can formulate attractive strategic intervention addressed to youth, through non formal and informal educational approach and methodologies.
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Radicalization (or radicalisation) is a process by which an individual, or group comes to adopt increasingly extreme political, social, or religious ideals and aspirations that reject or undermine the status quo or undermine contemporary ideas and expressions of the nation. The outcomes of radicalization are shaped by the ideas of the society at large; for example, radicalism can originate from a broad social consensus against progressive changes in society or from a broad desire for change in society. Radicalization can be both violent and nonviolent, although most academic literature focuses on radicalization into violent extremism. There are multiple pathways that constitute the process of radicalization, which can be independent but are usually mutually reinforcing.
Radicalization that occurs across multiple reinforcing pathways greatly increases a group’s resilience and lethality. Furthermore, by compromising its ability to blend in with non-radical society and participate in a modern, national economy, radicalization serves as a kind of sociological trap that gives individuals no other place to go to satisfy their material and spiritual needs "