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Discover research-based resources to help educators combat hate speech, promote inclusive citizenship, foster religious coexistence, and prevent atrocities against minorities.

On this educational platform, we offer a variety of research-based resources for educators to integrate into their practice. These resources include films, audio-visual articles, expert interviews, 360°-tours, as well as online courses.

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Photo: from Redicovering Tunisia. Young adults having a interreligious dialogue.

Additionally, we’ve curated relevant cases produced with regional expertise for further exploration, ensuring that all materials are freely accessible to users and grounded in both research-based and regional insights.

About our Pedagogical Framework

The material presented on our learning platform both applies and promotes diverse strategies to help educators effectively engage with topics like diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

1. Human Rights-Based Approach:

Our research-based content builds upon principles of equal human dignity and equal human rights for all individuals, regardless of differences in gender, religion or other identity factors. This approach encourages learners to reflect upon the implementation of these universal rights and principles in their communities, not least related to non-discrimination and majority/minority relations.

2. Comparative Approach:

Our resources are available for educators and learners to explore the conditions of religious and ethnic minorities in different parts of the world, focusing on conflict-ridden societies in selected ODA countries. By using our materials in a comparative way, learners can identify patterns and differences that may help their understanding of majority/minority relations in their context.

3. Interdisciplinary Approach:

Approaching a topic from different disciplinary perspectives enhances a deeper understanding of the underlying patterns and challenges. This also applies to education about human rights and inclusive citizenship. For instance, exploring a country’s religious diversity may be integrated into various subjects, such as history, social science, music, art, and religious studies.

4. Narrative Approach:

This approach is applied as an additional tool for analysis in research seminars and training modules in the ICHR project. It aims to explore how narratives shape both national and group identities, including one’s own and others, current and historical narratives. Narrative competence involves analyzing and deconstructing these narratives, asking questions such as how they are created, who creates them, and who they are intended for. This process lays the foundation for reconstructing narratives, empowering religious minorities to challenge majority perceptions, and facilitating the integration of minority traditions into the national narrative. Furthermore, the narrative approach is presented as a tool for critical analysis of storytelling through the use of films in education.

Video: Professor Claudia Lenz on the use of narrative approach. 

Free professional development resources:

Digital Courses on Diversity and Coexistence for Educators

Strengthen your expertise with our free courses on religious diversity, identity, and conflict. These digital resources support educators in addressing complex social issues in the classroom.

Related resources

Here are a few selected resources and films addressing issues related to the Yazidi case. In the case and topic sections you will find links to other relevant external resources.

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