International photographic competition - CONFLICT THROUGH THE LENS was organised at the end of 2022 and the idea of the competition was to challenge students at university level of any study programs and non-professional photographers to send us photographs that will show us how they perceive conflict in contemporary societies.
Fascinating interview with Julia Ebner. A researcher who has entered many violent radical communities. She went undercover to their meetings, learned their ideology, made friendships and contacts.
Nadine Bloch: Is it possible and good to eliminate violence from social conflicts? What does it mean nonviolence? Nadine is an activist, facilitator and trainer, a woman who lives the nonviolent methods of social change through her career. She is a member of the organization Beautiful Trouble https://beautifultrouble.org/ that collects wisdom and experience with positive change by nonviolent methods.
What we do
We educate people in the areas of conflict and development; we conduct community meetings and processes of participatory decision-making. We focus on three main areas:
Our projects
The PANORAMA project (2022 - 2023) analyzed online hate speech through its patterns and dynamics with the aim to counteract hate speech worldwide. It breached the challenges of addressing hate speech, which lay in the lack of understanding of its online trends and characteristics.
Protecting EU Values and Fundamental Rights through Public Participation and Civil Society Assistance in Central Europe
The growing social polarization and political illiberalism in the EU, but especially in the Central European Member States, pose great risks to civil society, which are increasingly evident through tighter controls on CSOs, cuts to their financial independence, intimidation of civic activists, and the portrayal of civil society as a public enemy. All this puts at risk a strong and dynamic civil society which is a fundamental requirement for a liberal and pluralistic democracy.
This program (2022 - 2023) aimed at training and mentoring national or local government officials and civil society community leaders from 7 countries (Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Austria, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary).
Across the world, the spread of disinformation is on the rise. Its volatile growth is the result of the strategic use of online disinformation, which undermines democracy, and polarizes societies. While ways to combat disinformation are currently trending in the media, the existing tactics are primarily directed at fact-checkers and journalists, leaving wider civil society actors to their own devices.
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PDCS
Partners for Democratic Change Slovakia
