About us
Tackling Hate is a collaborative initiative aiming to build capacities to tackle hate and extremism. In this website, you will find free training modules, video interviews with international experts, and blog posts sharing international cutting edge research evidence and best practice about how to tackle hate and extremism.
Tackling Hate aims to develop a new culture on how to address hate and extremism with a “whole of society” approach, which involves civil society organisations, government agencies, law enforcement, and scholars.
The key principles of our work are:
- to build an evidence-based approach to research and policy, maintaining a victim-centred focus on harm reduction and victims’ needs (the first step will be to develop victim-centred, integrated, whole-of-society data collection systems);
- to address all forms of hatred and hateful extremism holistically, instead of compartmentalize responses to hate against specific communities;
- to consider different forms of extremism, violent extremism and hatred (including hate crime, hate incidents and hate speech) as part of an ecosystem, not as separate issues.
Training
Modules
Check out our e-learning section to find what are the best training packages for your needs. We provide a wide array of multimedia and interactive resources to increase your understanding of theory and practice of tackling hate.
Ideas and
Research
Check out our blog section to stay on top of cutting-edge ideas and research from all over the world.
Video
Interviews
Watch our video-interviews with world experts discussing difficult questions about how to prevent hate and extremism.
International
Resources
Check our our curated list of international resources that include examples of reporting tools, online data repositories, guidelines and training program aiming at tackling hate.
Tackling Hate aims to build capacities to support incremental changes in the prevention and reduction of hate and extremism, including:
- the improvement of data collection practices, with the aim of producing evidence to advocate for changes in policy and legislation, and to improve evaluation of policies and programs;
- the support for victims of hate and extremism;
- the sharing of ideas and knowledge from global cases;
- the collaboration between governmental and non-governmental agencies;
- the raising of awareness among communities that face hate and extremism victimisation.
Team and contributors
The establishment of the Tackling Hate website was supported by the Victorian Department of Justice and Community Safety. The website is hosted at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, and it is sustained in collaboration with the Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies.
The core team who developed the training modules is:
Dr Matteo Vergani, Deakin University
Dr Carolina Navarro Medel, Deakin University and University of Chile
Prof Gail Mason, University of Sydney
Prof Steven Chermak, Michigan State University
Prof Joshua Freilich, City University of New York
Other project collaborators include:
Prof Greg Barton, Deakin University
Dan Goodhardt, Deakin University