work undertaken by civil society coalitions and encouraging the building of additional strong civil society inter-communal and interfaith networks to prevent and end all forms of hate crime and discrimination.
Understanding and recognizing the vital role that the civil society plays in confronting and addressing anti-Semitism, discrimination and intolerance, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights( ODIHR) and the European Parliament Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup( ARDI) are organizing a conference on“ Turning words into action to address anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination”.
Aims and objectives:
- Bring together civil society organizations, EU parliamentarians, and other important stakeholders in order to build strong and lasting coalitions, all with the aim of reducing anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination;
- Draw upon the high level of expertise in coalition building of the participants to share ideas for the future development of the ODIHR project“ Turning words into action to address anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination”, specifically in relation to coalition building;
- Examine how best to establish a series of trainings and workshops, which will be organized with the aim of creating a pool of expertise among the civil society organizations on the topic of coalition building.
Event format:
The configuration of the conference on“ Turning words into action to address anti- Semitism, intolerance and discrimination” reflects the need to bring together the relevant actors and experts at the international, European, national and local level who are dealing with issues of intolerance and discrimination.
The event will provide a platform for building networks and coalitions between the important stakeholders addressing the issues of anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination. It will also serve as a control group for sharing ideas for the future development of the project, specifically in relation to coalition building. The event is formatted in a way that allows all the participants to take an active role in providing input, thus bringing a variety of experienced views from different parts of the sector( content based, geographically based, etc.) Results of the event will be presented in a form of a report highlighting the findings and recommendations for future events on the coalition building. Following up on the recommendations to increase the collaboration between civil
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