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Fighting islamophobia and preventing the rise of far-right extremism

2022-3-DK01-KA153-YOU-0000993892022Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: DK|MA|HU|NL|BG|CZ|EG|FR|DE|TR|JO · Grant: €60,134
Preventing racism and discriminationInternational relations and development cooperationMedia literacy and tackling disinformation

Objectives

The project specifically aimed at enhancing the overall understanding of the driving factors of anti-Islamic sentiment in the partaking countries, which included its manifestations offline and online, the push and pull factors of perpetrators, their profile, the places it take place, how it is being addressed legally by the state and how social media platforms are used to disseminate and reinforce those negative perceptions. By doing so the project aimed at improving the critical thinking of youth workers and their intervention skills when it comes to addressing Islamophobia in their respective countries. The trainings further aimed at teaching practitioners how to address the psychological, emotional and physical needs of victims of anti-Muslim hate speech/crime, after hearing their stories and providing them with a platform to raise their voices. By exploring different case studies in an interactive manner, the project intended to also debunk myths regarding refugees and asylum seekers, and show the double standards of certain countries in their attitudes towards those groups. The specific objectives of the project were the following: ● to encourage youth workers to research trends of far-right extremism and evaluate existing practices. ● to enhance their media literacy skills and competences for the purposes of recognizing suspicious contents and behaviour online. ● to train youth workers how to work with victims of anti-Muslim hate speech/crime. ● to ameliorate youth workers competences on national legal frameworks related to tackling Islamophobia. ● To train youth workers how to approach youth at risk of far-right radicalization with empathy and compassion, in order to develop relationships that will help the latter avoid radicalization. ● To exchange best practices and experiences between organisations to encourage mutual learning and intercultural awareness. ● to expand the networks of individual organizations for the purposes of planning future initiatives based on their respective target groups and fields of activity.

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