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Delve into the impact of community-led adaptations! Discover a Promotora-delivered intervention, highlighting the effectiveness of culturally relevant approaches in bolstering support systems. Access the article here: https://ow.ly/GluM50RbV07

The latest updates from the Center for Democracy Innovation, including "Ten Steps Toward a Better Democracy," thousands more organizations on the Healthy Democracy Map, a new format for public meetings, new joint publications with NLC and C&S, the upcoming Conference on Citizenship, the pending Building Civic Bridges Act, All-America City Award applications, and a funny cartoon from the World Forum on Democracy, are here!

Tomorrow afternoon, the Security, Democracies & Cities conference in Brussels starts. The conference will take place from wednesday until friday and is hosted by European Forum for Urban Security (Efus). Nordic Safe Cities will attend and contribute at three sessions: - On Thursday the 21st of March from 4.30-6.00 pm (studio), our Deputy Director Lotte Fast Carlsen will speak at the thematic session - Protecting freedom of expression and diversity in shared public spaces. The session will discuss the safe use of public spaces in the context of international tensions and crises: How can we ensure that the city remains a safe place for democratic expression during protest demonstrations? How can we intervene in digital public spaces in terms of monitoring and preventing urban tensions? - On Friday morning from 9-10 am (R3), Head of Digital Prevention Sebastian Jørgensen, and Deputy Director Lotte Fast Carlsen, will head the how to session - How to understand and prevent hate, extremism, and disinformation online. At the session they present our Safe Digital City initiative and the challenges of hate, extremism, and disinformation that takes place on digital platforms. Addressing these challenges requires a systematic understanding of why, where, and how the local hate is formed and spread online. The aim of the session is to foster a discussion on existing digital prevention structures, inspire the participants with new tools, methods, and promising practices from three selected safe digital cities and ultimately, to help cities develop unique concepts and inspirations for safeguarding their digital democracies. - And lastly, on Friday from 11 am - 12.30 pm., Nordic Pioneer Prize winner 2022 Luqman Wadood will speak at the plenary session - Renewing our democratic practices, linking security, democracy and cities. The session discusses the gap between citizens and institutions widens, fostering the rise of authoritarian movements that challenge the very validity of democratic systems, as well as mistrust - even distrust fuelled by disinformation campaigns. We look very much forward to attend the conference and experience how European cities can learn from our Nordic member cities and vice versa. Democracies in Europe are under numerous threats which demand further cross-European cooporation on all levels. Sign up to the conference and gain first-hand knowledge about the newest research, tools and strategies on democracy building and prevention work:    https://lnkd.in/eFRrXnkP #security #safety #prevention #democracy #inclusion #conference #share

We should measure success through personal and rights based outcomes, not just short term targets. Find out how the Community Links Worker Programme puts people at the centre.     Look out for more in our series exploring the Health and Social Care Academy Five Ambitions in action.   https://lnkd.in/e8f7NBrM

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❗ Check out the 2024 State of Civil Society Report by CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation! 📚 The report presents global trends in civil society action amid conflicts and crises, reflecting over 250 interviews and articles from 100+ countries. 🔗 Read more here https://cutt.ly/Fw2lJkvT

ICYMI - REPOST GUIDES FOR AMERICAN BUSINESSES AND CORPORATIONS ON COUNTERING ANTISEMITISM Implement the U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism  Help all sectors of society utilize the U.S. Action Plan. American Jewish Committee (AJC) has developed multiple guides to help government officials, civil society leaders, educators, and more integrate recommendations from the National Strategy into practice. View and download a Task Force Guide below.