Call for partners
CoE – European Youth Foundation
Training course ‘Cyber world, Our world: Developing skills through active participation and awareness raising activities for fighting against hate speech online’
24th of September to 1st of October 2013; Palermo, Italy
Nowadays, the internet is perceived as one of the most powerful tools of communication. Thousands of websites contain materials, which undoubtedly have a great influence on people’s points of views and the way they consider contemporary issues. More and more citizens from all over the world are entering the cyber world which brings not only opportunities but threats as well.
One of the greatest threat is the phenomenon of hate speech. According tothe Committee of Ministers, it covers all forms of expression which spread, incite, promote or justify racial hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism or other forms of hatred based on intolerance. The range of the phenomenon can be observed by analyzing the statistics: While there was only a single racist website in April 1995, the Simon Wiesenthal Center estimated that there were more than 5 000 websites in 2005 in a variety of languages, which promote racial hatred and violence, anti-Semitism and xenophobia around the world. This case shows how important is the issue of hate speech.
The right to freedom of expression is not an absolute right and its boundaries are blurred. Legal guarantee of the freedom of speech requires some restrictions to the exercise of this right. Otherwise all of the wick points of it may be easily used by all of the purveyors of hate.
With our training course we would like to provide the knowledge about the hate speech, in order to help participants to understand the transformative nature of the Internet in terms of giving voice to all of its users and to raise the awareness about the negative results of the phenomenon.
Objectives of the training course:
- To inform about the problem of hate speech online and increase knowledge about the phenomenon.
- To encourage young people to discuss about relations between hate speech and freedom of speech.
- To raise the awareness in terms of international and national law regulations related to hate speech.
- To teach how to recognize symptoms of hate speech and how to react in situations.
- To improve participants’ skills of using special tools useful for fighting against hate speech.
- To analyze different methods and strategies of manipulation techniques used to spread xenophobia, racism and sexism.
Target group:
Young people, who work actively in their communities.
Economic Conditions:
Food and accommodation will be covered for the entire project 100%.
Participants fee: 50€ to be discounted in the travel reimbursement
Travel expenses will be reimbursed 2/3 of total cost.
COURSE DETAILS:
Venue: Palermo, ITALY
Duration: 8 days (included travel days)
Dates: 24th of September – 1st of October 2013
If you are interested to be a partner please fill, sign and stamp the partnership agreement which may be found in the attachment and send it to Marta Borkowska via e-mail internship@ceipes.org until the 25th of September!
