Posts Tagged ‘radicalisation & hateful extremism’
Using creativity to address hateful extremism in the classroom
Odd Arts uses theatre to change the way people understand themselves and the world around them. The themes we explore are nuanced and complex: Hateful extremism; sexual assault; mental health; exploitation. All of them hold risk. None of them have ‘one answer’. For this reason, many people (including teachers) feel safer avoiding them.
Read MoreThe Ebb and Flow of Hate Speech
After the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017, Islamophobia was fuelled and religiously aggravated hate crime more than doubled in Greater Manchester.
Read MoreIsolation to Radicalisation … What do we know now?
As someone following Odd Arts you are most probably already aware of our project ‘Isolation to Radicalisation’. Over the last 6 months we have documented our journey ‘posting’ quotes, pictures and daily reflections of the workshops online.
Read MoreManchester & Boston Radical Exchange: Shared approaches to tackling radicalisation & extremism
Radicalisation is a complex, vast and contentious issue. Society has generally been sceptical of the Home Office PREVENT strategy, and often people avoid the subject matter out of fear of offending or worsening a situation, and sometimes because they simply don’t know what it means … and this is understandable! In a nutshell, the approach we take to tackling radicalisation is:
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