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More than half a hundred young people participated in the 3rd Anti-Rumors Youth Summit, which was held from 6 to 9 September in Pamplona.
A meeting created to promote cultural diversity and social cohesion, which develops, after the experiences of the meetings of Sabadell in 2016 and Getxo in 2017, to reflect, debate and seek strategies aimed at promoting a society without stereotypes and free of prejudice .
They are young people from seven cities: Cartagena, Tenerife, Barakaldo, Getxo, Bilbao, Donostia and Pamplona.
This initiative, supported in its birth by the Council of Europe, seeks that young people share experiences, ideas about the strategy aimed at the youth group, in the work of ending rumors that hinder the coexistence in the municipalities, creating networks and groups of work both locally and nationally, in addition to providing resources and tools to young people for the development of anti-rumor strategies.
During these four days, more than fifty young people between 13 and 18 years old, from the different participating cities have shared the visions and strategies to fight against rumors, in this space of reflection, exchange of experiences, to analyze and debate the action proposals developed and developed by each of the participating municipalities, in which the City of Cartagena, since 2015 has been implementing and developing the strategy "Cartagena Free of Rumors" aimed at promoting cultural diversity and social cohesion without stereotypes and free of prejudices and xenophobic rumors in the space municipality of Cartagena.
Various municipal departments, social entities and secondary education centers are involved in this process to share the long-term communication and awareness strategy, with the aim of counteracting negative stereotypes, clichés and false rumors circulating about immigration and cultural diversity, and that hinder interaction and coexistence and can lead to discriminatory and racist attitudes.
OBJECTIVES OF THE III YOUTH SUMMIT
Among the specific objectives of this third Youth Summit are:
Promote the incorporation of young people to the Anti-Mood Strategy in the different participating municipalities.
To provide young people interested in social construction with spaces for participation, contact and exchange of experiences to facilitate their incorporation into the fabric.
Provide useful tools for their work as builders of a society free of prejudice and rumors.
Generate an action group that allows the Anti-Mood Strategy to be promoted in the youth spaces in each participating municipality.
Reflection: Identifying the role and possibilities of young people to actively join the Anti-Mood Strategy.
Training: Acquiring the basic tools necessary to face the challenges.
Planning: Thinking to implement effective actions and to bring interest in the young space.
THE ANTIRUMMERS STRATEGY
The Anti-Mood Strategy is an innovative initiative that is being promoted in several Spanish and European cities to dismantle prejudices, negative stereotypes and false rumors about the group of immigrants.
Recognized as good practice by the European Commission and the Council of Europe.
It started in Barcelona and has been implemented in several Spanish cities.
It originated in 2010, when the City Council of Barcelona promoted a strategy to counteract negative rumors about cultural diversity and, in this way, prevent discrimination, racism and xenophobia by addressing coexistence in diversity as a value in itself.
The cities of the Network of Intercultural Cities in Spain (RECI), of which Cartagena is a part since its creation in 2011, committed to promoting diversity management policies based on interculturalism, share methodologies, tools and good practices , and participate jointly in projects aimed at promoting the culture of diversity and as a result, this initiative emerged within the framework of various meetings promoted from the RECI, where the effort of the cities had been shared to encourage the participation of the youngest in the actions and strategies to fight against rumors and prejudices towards migrants.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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