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Over the course of a week, Jovesolides has met with youth workers from five different countries: Italy, Sweden, Jordan, Germany and Greece. This meeting, held within the framework of the European project Bridges No Walls, led by the organisation, has enabled the work with the partner organisations involved. The main objective: to combat gender-based Islamophobia in Europe.
For a week, young people from different European countries took part in training aimed at enabling them to work on diversity as a social value. The ultimate goal: to promote in their countries, among young people, a critical view of social reality and thus break down prejudices about Islamophobia, and more specifically about gender Islamophobia, the double discrimination suffered by Muslim women, because they are women and because they are Muslim. Or, as the researcher Itzea Goikolea Amiano defines it, 'Xenophobic and Islamophobic attitudes that mix with sexist and misogynist discourses, which doubly oppress, discriminate and target Muslim women'.
Young people have worked using innovative methodologies. It is also based on the exchange of experiences, an interfaith dialogue and the discovery of the importance of communication.
Through the Bridges No Walls campaign, a total of 20 young adults have participated in this event. Back in their home countries, they will replicate the training they have received and share the tools they have learned with more young adults. In addition, they will also create an awareness-raising campaign on social media to promote a more tolerant and diverse Europe.
In favour of bridges, also on social media
This meeting was the first phase of a project aimed at promoting democratic social construction based on equality, tolerance and solidarity among Euro-Mediterranean nations.
Through Bridges No Walls, Jovesólides continues to work in the fight against hate speech and for a positive use of the Internet and social media, communication platforms that are essential in our daily lives. Worldwide, people spend more than 10 billion hours connected to these platforms, according to the latest update of the Digital 2021 Report, produced by Hootsuite and We Are Social. And social networks are used to share tastes, spread opinions, connect with other people... but they are also used as a weapon of mass dissemination of hate. This is why Jovesólides works with Bridges No Walls, to contribute to creating a healthy and positive space where discrimination has no place.
Jovesólides' partners in this European project are: KulturLive, from Germany, Cooperazione Paesi Emergenti (COPE) and Cooperativa Sociale from Italy, ICSD (International Centre for Sustainable Development), from Greece, Desert Bloom for Training and Sustainable Development, from Jordan and Hello Youth, from Sweden.
Bridges No Walls is a project funded by the European Union. If you want to follow all the news and activities of this programme, follow the hashtag #BridgesNoWalls on social media.
