We support societies to resist division and become resilient to violence by:
(1) Increasing Knowledge & Capacity: we provide trainings and capacity building support to organizations and groups
(2) Supporting Strategy Design: we facilitate project design workshops and provide strategic advising
(3) Pushing Forward: we support pilot projects, inter-disciplinary research, and the prototyping and testing of promising approaches to push practical knowledge forward
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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 Over Zero’s Executive Director 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.