Introducing Günter Bressau, Head of Project Funding/International Programmes at the Baden-Württemberg Youth Foundation, as our second speaker at the Remembrance and Storytelling panel during the RESOLVE: Network Conference 2024.
Günter Bressau is Head of Project Funding / International Programmes at the Baden-Württemberg Youth Foundation and has led various projects on youth participation, promoting democracy and combating hate speech.
From 2008 to 2022, he set up the state-wide advisory network against right-wing extremism and the Baden-Württemberg Democracy Centre, where the REspect! reporting centre for hate speech was developed in 2017.
Internationally, he develops and accompanies ERASMUS+, CERV and HORIZON projects on different topics.
Günter Bressau and the RESOLVE: Network Conference 2024
Report_Hate Project
Günter Bressau will be sharing information on the Report_Hate Project as well as his experiences in addressing social intolerance and extremism in Germany.
Hate speech can lead to social division, escalation of conflicts and even violent confrontations. It undermines the principles of mutual respect and tolerance, which are essential for maintaining peace.
Through an ERASMUS+-funded project, Günter Bressau and his team is setting up a transnational reporting portal for hate speech for the first time with experienced reporting offices from Germany, Slovakia, Croatia and Israel as well as two new reporting options in Hungary and North Macedonia.
An accompanying campaign will address young people in these countries in particular about the necessity and possibility of reporting hate speech.
Report_Hate goes online in September 2024.
Hate speech is the most successful, when it is linked to a social memory and further developed by people using storytelling methods to share hate-based messages. This connection with memory and stories, links into the theme of Remembrance and Storytelling.