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Digital Peace Project

The Digital Peace Project seeks to contribute to national efforts to mitigate online hate while respecting freedom of speech. It will accomplish this by engaging with civil society actors, particularly those belonging to ethnic, cultural, religious and visible minority communities. More precisely, the project aims to increase the capacity of ethnic and cultural communities to address online racism and discrimination by centering the perspectives and opinions of those communities while exploring ideas for solutions.

Read our Policy Paper "Opportunities to Better Combat the Spread of Online Hate in Canada".

Thanks to funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Digital Peace Project included of the following activities:

  • Public perception survey conducted in partnership with RIWI
  • Focus groups to discuss policy implications of the survey’s findin
  • Public Roundtables on key themes
  • Policy Paper
  • Digital Campaign social media bot to raise awareness of online hate and its offline impacts as well as to counter online hate narratives
  • Podcast episodes available on Apple Podcast and Spotify
Public Roundtables

Session 1: Breaking Down Online Hate & Violence Against Women. Tue, Jan 24, 2023 11:00 AM

  • Lucina Di Meco, co-founder of #ShePersisted
  • Annabel Ashalley-Anthony, Founder of Melanin Gamers
  • Supriya Dwivedi, Director, Policy & Engagement at Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy
  • Bridget Todd, Podcast host of 'INTERNET HATE MACHINE' and 'There are No Girls on the Internet'

Moderator: Catherine McKenna, Principal, Climate & Nature Solutions & Former Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister

Session 2: Décoder la haine en ligne envers les personnes 2SLGBTQI+ - February 15th, 2023

  • Mylène de Repentigny-Corbeil, Les 3 Sex*
  • Alexandre Chartrand, Département communication, Université Concordia. Activisme des communautés LGBTQ+ contre les biais algorithmique sur les réseaux sociaux
  • Moe Hamandi, Présidence de Fierté Montréal
  • Élodie Palluet, Vice-présidente, Fondation Émergence

Session 3: Countering Online Hate Towards Indigenous Peoples - April 12th, 2023

  • Catherine Martin, member of the Millbrook Mi’kmaq First Nation Community. Award-winning filmmaker and producer, Director of Indigenous Community Engagement at Dalhousie University. 
  • Dr. Suzanne Kite is an Oglala Lakota performance artist, visual artist, and composer raised in Southern California. 
  • Bailey Oster, Métis woman with roots in the Red River Settlement and St. Paul des Métis. VP of New Dawn, the Métis Women’s Organization within Alberta, and the Youth Programs and Services Director at Métis Nation of Alberta
  • Megan Tipler, Métis educator, Indigenous Strategies Manager in the Office of the Vice Provost (Indigenous Programming and Research) at the University of Alberta.
  • Moderator: Kristy Snell, Academic Director/Journalistic Leader In-Residence at Concordia University's Institute for Inclusive, Investigative, and Innovative Journalism.

Session 4: Tackling Online Hate Against Religious Minorities - May 31, 2023

Speakers:

  • Wendy Via, Co-Founder & President, Global Project Against Hate and Extremism
  • Emmanuelle Amar, Director of Policy & Research Quebec, CIJA
  • Jennifer Tridgell, Senior Legal Advisor, Freedom of Religion or Belief and Equality Project at the University of Essex

Moderator: Akaash Maharaj, Ambassador-at-Large for the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption

Session 5: Combatting Online Hate on the basis of race or ethnicity 

  • Fernand de Varennes (UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues)
  • Naomi Kikoler (Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
  • Ronan Lee (Loughborough University London)
  • Alice Wairimu Nderitu (UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide)
Podcast episodes:

Breaking Down Online Hate & Violence Against Women. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Countering Online Hate Directed at Racial and Ethnic Minorities. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Measuring Online Harms and Who They Impact. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify

Cyberviolences basées sur le genre et magnosphère: discussion avec Marianne Couture-Cossette. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

”Queering the Web”: a conversion with Dr. Stefanie Duguay. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Stories from CSW67: Resilience and Youth Empowerment in the Digital Age. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Tackling Online Hate Against Religious Minorities. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

Countering Online Hate Towards Indigenous Peoples. Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

 

Projet pour la Paix Numerique

Le Projet pour la Paix Numérique vise à contribuer aux efforts nationaux visant à atténuer la haine en ligne tout en respectant la liberté d'expression. Il y parviendra en collaborant avec les acteurs de la société civile, en particulier ceux appartenant aux communautés ethniques, culturelles, religieuses et des minorités visibles. Plus précisément, le projet vise à accroître la capacité des communautés ethniques et culturelles à lutter contre le racisme et la discrimination en ligne en centrant les perspectives et les opinions de ces communautés tout en explorant des idées de solutions.

Grâce au financement du ministère du Patrimoine canadien, le Projet de paix numérique comprendra les activités suivantes :

  • Enquêtes de perception du public réalisée en partenariat avec RIWI
  • Groupes de discussion pour discuter des implications politiques des résultats de l'enquête
  • Tables rondes publiques sur des thèmes clés (voir ci-dessous)
  • Article de politique publique de fin de projet
  • Campagne de réseaux sociaux pour sensibiliser à la haine en ligne et à ses impacts hors ligne, ainsi que pour contrer les récits de haine en ligne.
  • Episodes balado sur sur Apple Podcast et Spotify
Tables rondes en français 

Séance 2: Décoder la haine en ligne envers les personnes LGBTQI+ (Français) 15 février 2023

  • Mylène de Repentigny-Corbeil, Les 3 Sex*
  • Alexandre Chartrand, Département communication, Université Concordia. Activisme des communautés LGBTQ+ contre les biais algorithmique sur les réseaux sociaux
  • Moe Hamandi, Présidence de Fierté Montréal
  • Élodie Palluet, Vice-présidente, Fondation Émergence

Balado en français:

Cyberviolences basées sur le genre et magnosphère: discussion avec Marianne Couture-Cossette - Available on Apple Podcast or Spotify.

 

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