Category Archives: News

From the left: Ingvild Endestad, Leader of the Norwegian office and Head of Tech & Democracy, Laila Bokhari, board member and Director at Global Security Assesments, Lotte Fast Carlsen, Deputy Director and Kine Aure Nilsen, Program Lead at the Norwegian office. The main focus of the new office will be...

    Are young people in Bodø exposed to violent and problematic content on social media? Which groups are most exposed, and what are the risk areas? To address this issue, Nordic Safe Cities, in collaboration with Analyse & Tall and Common Consultancy, produced the report “Bodø-ungdoms digitale liv: bruk,...

  Welcome to the first edition of our new format – The Democracy Spotlight. We experienced a need among our readers for a new approach that provided more specific expert knowledge on democracy building and prevention work, and we hope this new format will match your expectations. The Democracy Spotlight...

All the members of the Safe Cities Norway initiative gathered for a meeting in Oslo in 2022. Foto: Gjensidigestiftelsen. – We are very grateful that Gjensidigestiftelsen wants to continue the collaboration. Safe Cities Norway is a unique initiative – in a Norwegian as well as a Nordic context. It provides...

  -The study demonstrates that the level of antisemitism is high – even before the current crisis. It not only reveals a concerning amount of antisemitism but also shows how and where it manifests, Emma Pretzmann, Director of the Jewish Information Center, says. Established through collaboration between the Jewish Society...

An LGBTQ+ activist, a folk singer, a safe space founder and a film maker are this year’s winners of the Nordic Pioneer Prize 2023. There is power in being young! Most youngsters don’t use that power – but this year’s winners of the Nordic Pioneer Prize are all about social...

We and our partners have analyzed 10,4 million comments and detected the amount of hate speech on Facebook in Norway. Muslims and women are the groups who are targeted with most hate on Facebook.   The public conversation has largely shifted to social media, where we all spend a lot of...

We are pleased to release our latest findings from the Safe Digital City project, which has analyzed the comments section on political parties’ Facebook pages in Kristiansand. The analysis reveals that on average, there is twice as much online hate in political conversations compared to the broader digital conversation in...

The Nordic Pioneers project is now accepting nominations for its prestigious prize, recognizing individuals who are leading the way in making their local communities and society as a whole more inclusive, diverse and cohesive. So the question is: Do you know someone who has made a significant impact in the...