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This is a forum where we share news and insights from cities and partners in our alliance and update you on the work being done across the Nordic Region. The news include best practices shared by our member cities, new reports, initiatives, media stories and much more. We cast light on innovative approaches to current safety challenges and highlight the steps made towards making the Nordics a global pioneer region in preventing extremist violence, polarisation and hate.
Building Safer Queer Cities in the Nordics
Participants from the LGBT+ workshop in Oslo, Norway, at the 10-11th of October 2024. The first important initiative from our Norwegian office has been to host an important workshop in collaboration with Reykjavik Municipality and the Canadian Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence (CPRLV). While the...
Read the full storyBREAKING NEWS: NORDIC SAFE CITIES ARE OPENING AN OFFICE IN OSLO
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...
Read the full storyNew Safe Digital City Analysis: Bodø Youth highly exposed to hate speech, abuse, and extreme content on social media
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,...
Read the full storyDemocracy Spotlight #1 Combatting Youth Crime in the Nordics
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...
Read the full storyThe Safe Cities Norway initiative receives 25 million NOK from Gjensidigestiftelsen
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...
Read the full storyLargest Study to Date: Antisemitism has become a normalized part of the public digital discourse on Jews in Denmark
-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...
Read the full storyHere are the winners of the Nordic Pioneer Prize 2023
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...
Read the full storyAnalysis: Hate speech on Facebook in Norway
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...
Read the full storyAnalyzing the political conversation in Kristiansand
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...
Read the full storyNominate a Nordic Pioneer now!
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...
Read the full storyLaunch of Shalom Danmark
Nordic Safe Cities, Jødisk Informationscenter and partners will scope the amount of antisemitism in Denmark and invent preventative efforts to counter the issue. Antisemitism isn’t just a thing of the past. Unfortunately. It lingers on to this day, especially in the digital sphere where a tight connection between antisemitism and...
Read the full storyNordic Safe Cities Summit
Politicians, practitioners, professionals and thought-leaders gathered at our Nordic Safe Cities Summit. We aim to defend democracy from everything which threaten to tear it apart. We want to create strong and resilient communities with more inclusion. With more social cohesion. But we cannot do it on our own. We work...
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