Education, Social Cohesion, and the Future Role of International Organizations
This article questions the role of international organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations in regulating educational curriculum.
This article questions the role of international organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations in regulating educational curriculum.
The International Network Against Cyberhate (INACH) was founded in 2002 in Amsterdam. It began with support from Jugendschutz.net and the Magenta Foundation, and with the legal backing of the Dutch Complaints Bureau for Discrimination on the Internet., With a large network of organisations, speaking a variety of languages, INACH is…
Increasingly, hate groups have used the Internet to express their viewpoints, sell their paraphernalia, and recruit new members. This study explored the effectiveness of persuasive storytelling found on White supremacist Web pages. One hundred eight adolescents participated in a longitudinal study (pretest, Time 1, Time 2) conducted online. A 3…
The thesis of this analysis is that most of the wide range of Islamic political activities and agendas present in Somalia can coexist with Western security concerns, but that two radical Islamist agendas inside Somalia constitute serious threats. These are (1) the commitment to jihad against the Ethiopian government (embraced…
Official text of the UN Joint Plan of Action.
Pakistan’s religious schools, Madrassahs, trace their traditions back through nearly a thousand years of Islamic teaching. Over the last decades, however, they increasingly have played a role contrary to their original intent. Founded as centers of learning for the next generation of Islamic scholars and clerics, the schools now increasingly…
Founded in 2001, ReachOut Berlin serves as the preeminent centre of counselling support for victims of right-wing, racist, and anti-Semitic attacks in Berlin. ReachOut serves both as a response centre and advocacy group. As well as providing free and voluntary services to victims, it also collects information on attacks in…
Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” –an event which changes things so fundamentally that…
The Two Faces of Education in Ethnic Conflict challenges a widely-held assumption – that education is inevitably a force for good. While the provision of good quality education can be a stabilizing factor, Kenneth Bush and Diana Saltarelli show how educational systems can be manipulated to drive a wedge between…
The continuity of elites gave strong expression to the pre-Islamic components of Southeast AsianIslamic civilization. In the regions of Indonesia and Malaysia an overwhelming majority of the population eventually accepted an Islamic identity while Muslims remained a minority in the Philippines.
The Network for Democracy and Courage uses democracy-empowering educational tools and vocational training centres to counteract racism among youths, encouraging them to speak up about discriminatory statements and behaviour. The NDC works to convey the message that racism is an inhuman idea, and that it defies the principles of democracy.
The purpose of the Internet Centre Anti-Racism Europe, is to study and analyse the spread of discrimination, anti-semitism, and right-wing extremism in the online community, along with connecting organisations that serve to counter these sentiments.