The Democratic Initiatives Incubator invites you to participate in the Working meeting “Countering hate speech in times of war and political crisis”, which will be held on 22-25 August 2024 in Warsaw, Poland.

Participants of the working meeting will be able to:

• Discuss the phenomenon, causes, peculiarities of manifestation and consequences of hate speech in the conditions of war and political crisis in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region and neighboring countries from the point of view of experts from various fields (education, linguistics, history, law, psychology, social communications, journalism, etc.).
• Exchange good practices in countering hate speech in their work.
• Develop recommendations on countering hate speech for specialists and civil society organizations from the EaP countries.

We are looking for citizenship education experts from related fields from the EaP countries, as well as those who currently reside as forced migrants in the EU countries, in particular those who face manifestations of hate speech in their work and who are ready to share their experience of countering hate speech and discuss practical recommendations in this area with colleagues from other countries.
Possible formats of participation: online and offline. The working languages of the event are English and Russian. It is also expected that participants will be able to use the national languages supporting each other.

To participate in the working meeting, please fill in the registration form until 31.07.2024 here: https://forms.gle/qurwKBbsGdjkeJu17

The working meeting is held within the framework of the project ‘Countering Hate Speech in the Times of War and Political Crisis through Civic Education’, which is developed and implemented by a consortium of experts of EENCE - Eastern European Network for Citizenship Education, funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office under the programme ‘Enhancing Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries’. The project is coordinated by the Democratic Initiatives Incubator (Ukraine).