#COMMIT: empowering youth against extremism and terrorism online
Young people can be more vulnerable to extremist, radical and terrorist propaganda online. Is there a way to dissuade them and target specific countries?
Challenge
Young people can be more vulnerable to extremist, radical and terrorist propaganda online. Can we prevent them from falling victim to these dynamics?
Set up a cross-media campaign along the way to reinforce those efforts. Train university students, media professionals, CSOs, Internet companies and stakeholders to tackle these challenges structurally.
Solution
The key to our approach in 4 partner countries: providing our target audiences, young people from 13 to 25 years, with ways to identify and resist extremist online content, along with skills to co-create counter narratives, promoting democratic values, tolerance & cooperation.
A cross-media campaign combines online channels and face to face activities, like workshops, contests and events. 3 campaign service lines address fake news, hate speech, populistic propaganda, right- and left-wing extremism, and Islamic radicalism & terrorism.
We train university students, media professionals, CSOs, Internet companies and stakeholders in alternative and counter narratives through a capacity building programme.
We empower CSOs to use their understanding of local communities to prevent extremism and radicalism from gaining ground. This includes multi-stakeholder collaboration and activities atnetwork-building events, conferences and workshops.
Result
Check out the dedicated website here.