In collaboration with Mirovni Inštitut, University of Ljubljana and Novosadska novinarska škola, Centre for Peace Studies developed the manual for teachers: Preventing Hate Speech Online.The publication is developed with the idea to support secondary school teachers and school staff to better understand the phenomenon of hate speech and hate speech online, to become familiar with crucial terms, definitions and legislation in order to address this growing phenomenon with students, colleagues and parents. It is also equipped with developed teaching units, school projects and ideas to be further developed and implement in classrooms and schools, thanks to all teachers who helped with their feedback and participation.
This publication was produced through the project SEE Beyond Hate: Learning and Acting to Counter Hate Speech Online in South East Europe with the financial support of the European Union.
The goal of this publication is to:
- Inform teachers about key international and national legislation regarding hate speech online,
- Help teachers recognize key actors dealing with hate speech in their countries and recall their specific expertise (specific social networks, Ombudsperson, CSOs, police)
- Recognize hate speech as discriminatory speech and as potential basis for hate crime
- Deconstruct hate speech and distinguish fake news
- Identify and recognize media, social groups and channels which are spreading hate speech online
- Help them to analyse and interpret the imbalance of power related to hate speech
- Empower teachers to react on hate speech and encourage other colleagues and students to react
- Formulate and to plan activities for preventing and solving emerging hate speech in their
classroom and school