Instructional materials
SOMEONE researchers and collaborator have co-created a variety of curricular resources to help teachers, educators, social workers and community leaders tackle problems associated with hate speech, racism, profiling and violent extremism. Follow the links below to read, view and hear more about these projects and to download related documents, worksheets and arts-based pedagogies.
​Lesson plans and toolkits
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Explore your echo (lesson plans)
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Landscape of Hope Evaluation guidebook (tools for arts-based and resilience-based initiatives)
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Workbooks
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Digital Citizens of Tomorrow (Workbook for school teachers)
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Digital Citizens of Tomorrow (Workbook for school teachers in Arabic)
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Digital Empowerment (Workbook for social workers in Arabic)
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Online Media and the Critical Thinker (Workbook for media activists in Arabic)
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Web 2.0 – a Platform for Peace (Workbook for university instructors)
Instructional videos
Are you looking to incorporate a video into your curriculum or pedagogical approach to sensitize your learners to hate speech, racism, radicalisation, profiling or violent extremism? Look no further than these thoroughly researched and high-quality interviews, performances and documentaries which you can easily embed or link to in your own classroom syllabi.
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What is hate speech? 2-minute video
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Can hate speech be justified? 3-minute video
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​Navigating Hate: A Primer for Educators 4 part video series for pre-service teachers
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Community-based interviews and documentaries
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Conversations with Metal Music Scene Members 10 videos of varying lengths
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Interviews on radicalization from the "From Hate to Hope" MOOC
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Definitions of Hate 5-minute video
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Challenges specific to online hate 6-minute video
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Factors that lead to radicalization 5-minute video
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Radicalization – push and pull factors 5-minute video
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Techniques used by hate groups 5-minute video from
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Dialogue, resilience and online hate 6-minute video
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Perspectives on prevention and resilience 6-minute video
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Fake news 2-minute video from “Hate to Hope” MOOC
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Interview with Bassel, journalist and activist. 3-minute video
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Interview with Maxime, former extremist. 18-minute video
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Interview with Mubin, former extremist. 13-minute video
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Interview with Brad, former extremist. 23-minute video
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Interview with Abood, former refugee. 19-minute video
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Poetry performance of “The Wrath of Religion” from the Literary Peace project, 2-minute video
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Poetry performance of “Naming” from the Learning to hate: an anti-hate comic project, 3-minute video
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Online courses & webinars
Our researchers and creators have developed online courses, led webinars and developed instructional modules with international partners. You can check these out by following the links below:
​Online Courses
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From Hate to Hope: Building Understanding and Resilience (Massive Open Online Course)
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Addressing Online Hate online module as part of cybersec 101
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Hatred in an Era of Misinformation: Lessons from Former Extremists webinar as part of media literacy week 2018
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​PROFILE: A toolkit against racism and bias webinar for Concordia University "CU at Home"
Presentations, lectures & workshops
If you are looking for a recording of lectures and methodology workshops delivered by some of our researchers, you need look no further than here.
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Life After Hate – The Walrus Talks Living Better Series 7 minute video
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Corpus-assisted (critical) discourse analysis (CACDA) methodology workshop and hands-on session from Prejudice du jour project, 2 x 30-minute videos
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Critical analysis of IS social media videos presentation, 26-minute video
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Communal and Individual Politics in the Extreme Metal Artform lecture at Concordia University 42-minute video
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Theatrics of hate presentation at CICC (Centre International de Criminologie Compare), 30-minute video
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Sexual Violence and Misogyny in Lyrical and Literary Frameworks panel and improvisational reading, 60- and 20-minute videos
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Spectacles of Hate Speech presentation and Q&A, 60- and 40-minute videos
Podcasts
​We’ve created a unique series of podcasts with partners in human rights organisations as well as our collaborators in cultural scenes. You can check these out by following the links below:
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What’s that noise. Volume 12: Right-Wing Extremism 60 minutes
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Speaking Rights podcast – Motivate. In partnership with Equitas. 12 minutes
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Deciphering Norms of Media Consumption in Extreme Metal – a podcast series
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Propositions for Cultural Reappropriation 35 minutes
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Balancing Free Speech, Critical Thinking and Media Literacy 29 minutes
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Social Media: The Good, the Bad and the Unforgivable 34 minutes
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Women in Metal: Underdogs or Equals? 29 minutes
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