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Interventions to counter hate speech

Birmingham: GSDRC (2014), 8 pp.
"A number of international organisations and NGOs suggest strategies for countering hate speech, but there is limited evidence of successful interventions. There is a general lack of impact evaluations of interventions to counter hate speech. When impact is measured it tends to be done in the short-term, for example by looking at feedback from individuals involved in conferences, rather than measuring behavioural change or changes in attitudes. Moreover, claims about the impact of specific interventions are often made by the organisations running the interventions and are unsubstantiated." (p.3)
Contents
1 Overview, 1
2 Are interventions to counter hate speech effective? 2
3 Examples of successful interventions, 3