What is this project about?
Racism affects a wide range of areas that include healthcare, education, employment, housing, participation, and climate change. Along these lines, the annual work plan ‘Choosing anti-racism: choosing the radical re-orientation of our consciousness’ aims to provide space for IFM-SEI and its members to reflect on social and organisational attitudes, beliefs and practices, create a better understanding of power structures and dynamics by analysing the roots and mechanisms of racial discrimination, and empowering them to take anti-racism actions.
- To gain a better understanding of what racism is, its mechanisms and manifestations in our individual lives, youth organisations and society at large by examining the effects of racism globally.
- To reflect and examine our own biases, privileges, power structures, and organisational practices.
- To raise awareness of what anti-racism is, why it is essential and how to promote anti-racist behaviours in youth organisations by exchanging strategies and good practices for combating racism and discriminatory attitudes.
- To strengthen and move towards anti-racist and anti-discriminatory behaviours and practices among youth leaders and youth organisations and promote the implementation of anti-racism practices in personal and professional lives.
- To create tools for anti-racist education and activism in digital and hard form.
Phases of the project:
Choosing Anti-racism
24-31 July 2023
Finland
Seven-day training to develop participants’ knowledge, capacities, reflection, and skills in recognising racist actions and ways to tackle them based on intercultural understanding and conflict resolution techniques. It will also help the participants to develop training sessions, mechanisms, and proposals that will then be implemented in regional meetings.
Radical Re-orientation
16 – 24 September 2023
Mollina, Málaga, Spain
Seven-day training to talk about shared values of justice, opportunity, and community equity based on the model of intersectionality. Participants will come together to enhance their knowledge on orientalism, the pedagogy of the oppressed, individual biases, institutional and structural racism, and critical thinking.
Pedagogy of Anti-racism
18 – 24 November 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Participants will compile all the outcomes of the previous phases to develop an Anti-racist education toolkit, including human rights education tools and information for youth workers, and theoretical background to the topic.
Outputs:
It will include human rights education tools, activities and campaign tools on anti-racism.
Anti-Racist Podcasts
Podcast on combating anti-racism and individual biases from an intersectional and systemic approach.
Anti-Racist Chart
Interactive chart with individual and organisational actions to tackle individual bias and institutional and structural racism.
This project is funded with the support of the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe. It does not necessarily reflect the official position of the Council of Europe.
