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By applying design principles, marketing strategies and behavioral science, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow Rachel Brown has gained a deep understanding of what incites speech-driven violence. In the process, she is learning there is a flip side – using speech to incite peace.
Read Defusing Hate, by Rachel Brown
Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech” -hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone, or commit violence against targeted groups. Dangerous speech is consequently considered both a warning sign and an instrument of group-targeted violence. Counteracting its dissemination provides us with one avenue for preventing this type of violence from occurring.