News from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Photo by Victoria Heath on Unsplash In late January 2020, Jim Bronskill of The Canadian Press reported on Canadian Government documents that had recently been made available to the public. The unclassified but redacted documents concern the state of right-wing extremism in Canada and revealed that members of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal…
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Many of our members have felt in the last couple of years a growth in community division and polarisation. Communication campaigns are a great tool to promote social cohesion in a cost-effective and wide reaching manner. Such campaigns can be led by city hall together with civil society groups to foster a sense of place…
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Right-wing extremist groups and ideologies are rising across the global north. Climbing hate crime statistics highlight the increased violence and harassment which minority communities are under, whilst recent terror attacks in New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom throw this threat into the fore. However, the question remains, how should local authorities…
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Patricia Crosby, SCN Regional Manager, and Tim Hulse, M&E Coordinator, reflect on a recent workshop held by Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health exploring how to apply public health methodology to the evaluation of CVE programmes and makes the case for improving our focus on this important, but often under-looked, aspect of successful local…
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We are delighted to announce the launch of a multi-million Euro fund for civil society organisations from across Europe to aid the Strong City Network’s (SCN) aim to counter hate and extremism, and support local-level innovation to build social cohesion and resilience in our communities. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), where the SCN is…
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ISD recently published a new impact report following the Sens Critique pilot project. The pilot, which took place earlier last year, brought together organisations with expertise in media, education, disinformation and counter extremism to educate a group of 22 secondary school students (aged 13 to 15) from Paris to the dangers of ‘fake news’. It…
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