News
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Sociological and computational analysis of hate speech
The Faculty of Humanities of the University of Primorska hosted a round table on sociological and computational approaches to the analysis of hate speech in the framework of the...
In Defence of Migration Society
Sign “Berlin Declaration – In Defence of the Migration Society” alerting the unacceptable increasing trends of criminalization and scandalization of migration in Germany and throughout Europe.
Annual Report 2022
We published an overview of our work in 2022. All together, we carried out 30 projects, along with a research programme.
City for Everybody – Building Responsible Action for Inclusive Local Communities
If you have moved to Slovenia and live in Ljubljana, we invite you to participate in one of the two focus groups that will take place in Ljubljana.
The conference on hate speech
Veronika Bajt presented a paper entitled “The Sociological Definition of Hate Speech: Uncoupling Intersectional Exclusions” at a conference on hate speech, held in Pamplona on 6-7 June 2023.
Seminar on empowering migrants’ voices in integration and inclusion policies
The aim of the seminar was to look at the possibilities of political participation of migrants at institutional and local level in Ljubljana.
Projects
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Analysis of online hate speech and disinformation in Slovenia and development of a proposal for action
Identifying and understanding the phenomena of disinformation and hate speech and other forms of socially unacceptable discourse; and developing appropriate indicators, an index or a model for continuous monitoring.
Human Rights Guide II
The Human Rights Guide is an online information and education resourse designed as legal self-help tool that explains to readers in a simple way the fundamental rights in...
Research network FRANET
The Peace Institute, as part of the FRANET research network and contractual partner of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), which established the research network, has the task...
City for Everybody – Building Responsible Action for Inclusive Local Communities
To increase the motivation and readiness of local, educational and NGO communities to respond and intervene in cases of racism, xenophobia and intolerance.
Parliament for the Future of Europe
The project creates awareness for barriers/ inaccessibilities and develops concrete proposals for a more inclusive EU.
FIERCE – Feminist movements revitalizing democracy in Europe
The project’s main goal is to provide theoretical and practical knowledge and tools to revitalize alliance among feminist movement, civil society and political decision makers.
Publications
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Book / Ethnic Discrimination: Strategies of Research and Measurement
The book presents in detail and critically evaluates different ways of “measuring” ethnic discrimination, breaking new ground in the field of empirical data collection on unequal treatment as well...
Article / Legislative and Judicial Responses to the “Refugee Crisis” in Slovenia and Austria: A Comparative Perspective
In the last issue of the journal ‘Dve domovini/Two Homelands’, Neža Kogovšek Šalamon compares the key normative approaches to responses to the 2015–2016 “refugee crisis” in Slovenia and Austria.
Article / The Transversal Political Logic of Populism: Framing the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Slovenian Parliamentary Debates
In the article the authors Mojca Pajnik and Emanuela Fabijan analyse how politicians in Slovenia responded to migration during and after the ‘refugee crisis’ (2015–2019).
Article Whose children? The EU and Member States’ integration policies in education
The authors argue that nationalism and the denial of rights in EU member states are the two main obstacles that prevent integration from becoming a two-way process, focusing...
Reported User-Generated Online Hate Speech: The ‘Ecosystem’, Frames, and Ideologies
Iztok Šori (Peace Institute) and Vasja Vehovar (Faculty of Social Sciences) published an article in the journal Social Sciences in which they analyze hate speech reported by Internet users...
Article Empowerment through Migration: Narratives of Successful Migrant Women’s Integration in Slovenia
Drawing on new empirical data comprising migrant women’s narratives and their voices assembled in an online survey, in this paper we argue that migration should also be viewed as...