Countering online hate towards racial and ethnic minorities

In our fifth roundtable event as part of the Digital Peace Project series, we will be examining online hate targeted at racial and ethnic minorities including recommendations and calls to action.

The Digital Peace Project seeks to contribute to national and international efforts to mitigate online hate while respecting freedom of speech. More precisely, the project aims to increase the capacity of communities most often targeted by online hate to address online racism and discrimination by centering the perspectives and opinions of those communities while exploring ideas for solutions.

Many thanks to the Department of Canadian Heritage for funding this project.

Speakers:

• Fernand de Varennes, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
• Naomi Kikoler, Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Ronan Lee, Doctoral Prize Fellow, Institute for Media and Creative Industries