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On World Cities Day, @ISDglobal's Strong Cities Network (SCN) and @NordicSafeCity are excited to launch the Together for Safety Talks, a series of online public events to tackle hate, extremism and polarisation in the Nordics and globally. #TogtherforSafety #worldcitiesday pic.twitter.com/DjWMliYJAD
For World Cities Day, @ISDglobal's #StrongCities Network (SCN) and @NordicSafeCity (NSC) are pleased to renew and formalise their existing partnership. #TogetherforSafety pic.twitter.com/RUSted2N2m
ISD Digital Dispatches: @ISDglobal's @jacob_p_davey leads an investigation into the use of Telegram by white supremacist communities to infiltrate and disrupt BLM movements. Read below 👇 isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…
Inspirational story from #StrongCities member Chaguanas 🇹🇹 and police officer Adrian Sealey, who led on the #MakingKindnessContagious started in #Anaheim CA. Read more below 👇 pic.twitter.com/CUK4cIhb3O
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ConnectFacilitate systematic sharing of knowledge, expertise and lessons learned on building social cohesion and community resilience to prevent violent extremism across cities on an international basis, through both regional workshops and international conferences.
Raise awareness of existing policy, programming, and practice through a dynamic and searchable ‘Online Information Hub’, providing an extensive library of existing local approaches and responses to prevent violent extremism.
Directly support cities to develop strategic frameworks and capabilities to build resilience that safeguard the rights of their local communities, including through capacity building seminars and interactive training modules on themes of mutual interest.
Directly seed the development of new and innovative projects through ‘Local Innovation Grants’, providing support for cities on innovative project development and support for the transfer of promising projects that could be adapted across different locations.
Directly support cities to develop strategic frameworks and capabilities to build resilience that safeguard the rights of their local communities, including through capacity building seminars and interactive training modules on themes of mutual interest.
Provide a global platform to enable cities to jointly voice their needs and those of their communities, to inform national and international decision-making on preventing the spread and growth of violent extremism.