How comes to discrimination? Be aware / Jak dochodzi do dyskryminacji? Uświadom sobie

Migration and discrimination of migrants were topics of a two day workshop at the Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

We learnt what we need to act against discrimination: knowledge, skills, reflection -> motivation to act. These reminds me of the concept of Swiss Johann Pestalozzi „head, heart and hand” [głowa, serce, ręka]. It means that our mind, feelings and actions should "act" together.

Mechanism of discrimination in short looks like this. / Mechanizm dyskryminacji w skrócie wygląda tak:

Drama as a tool of education of antidiscrimination

Drama can be a very useful tool of education against discrimination. The society of Drama Practitioners STOP-KLATKA conducted a seminar from 19th till 21th January 2015 about different drama techniques. These passionate people are working for social change by using the Applied Drama method and teach working with drama. The workshop aimed in preparing teaching materials about using applied drama for education against discrimination. More about the Association you can read here: http://stop-klatka.org.pl/english/.

Jan Karski. Human beings and H/history

Looking for examples of brave but not out of reach people?
Jan Karski was one of them. His life was an inspiration for the conference "Jan Karski. Human beings and H/history. Aims of education for antidiscrimination"

It took place in Polish parlament in November'14, 28-29. 120 teachers and pupils took part on it. You also can do following things:

Textbook "History and human rights"

KARTA Center published the textbook "History and human rights" and translated it into English. You can find the textbook here: http://bit.ly/15Oljrr. I'm the co-editor of the textbook.

Workshops "History and human rights"

History education can be connected with the field of human rights. Since 2010 I'm attempting to do it on a theoretical and practical way. I worked out a theory and methodology on it, which could be useful also for you. You can download it here.

You can also download workshop scenarios for work with adults and pupils here.

Human rights and restorative justice

Do you know what is restorative justice? It is an approach to justice that focuses on the needs of the victims and the offenders, as well as the involved community, instead of satisfying abstract legal principles or punishing the offender. ("A New Kind of Criminal Justice", Parade, October 25, 2009, p. 6.)

The methods of restorative justice are often a topic of education about and for humen rights, which implements e.g. the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.

I took part on a 3-months-workshop of the Foundation about education about human rights (2012). The results of the workshop were very practical. The participants prepared and conducted one workshop at a self-chosen institution.

Teaching materials to human rights

Teaching human rights is a challenge for people from different fields and institutions. That's why the Centre of Human Rights Education of the University of Teacher Education in Lucerne is organising the Human Rights Education Symposium in Lucerne.

The topic of the Symposium in 2012 was the developing of teaching materials on human rights education. I took part on following workshops:

Network of cultural and civic activists - MitOst

The Society MitOst is a living network of cultural and civic activists in Eastern and Central Europe. Every year member meet at different cities in the region. A member can be everyone, who is interested in the culture and civic life in the region.

The meetings have the name "Festival" and have different topics. E.g. the 9th Festival of MitOst took place in České Budějovice from 28.9.2011 till 2.10.2011. The topic of this MitOst - Festival was new forms of engagement. There were many people who are engaged for a balanced life.

German-Russian cooperation

German-Russian cooperation is supported on different ways.

One of the initiative is the Petersburger Dialog. It was initiated by the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian president Wladimir Putin 2001 and it works till now. Since 2014 it is more and more criticized because of its political dependence.

The Petersburger Dialog consists of workgroups. Sometimes they invite to their meetings representatives of other nations.