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From Dialogue to Defense: Building Resilience in Berlin

Content

Returning from Tbilisi, Copernicus Berlin invited youth workers and educators to address digital threats and polarization in schools and communities.

Workshop Goals

  • Address radicalization in online spaces.

  • Strengthen peer dialogue capacity.

  • Share tools for de-escalation and critical analysis.

Key Activities

  • Hate speech decoding activity using real social media posts.

  • Case studies of German counter-extremism initiatives.

  • “Digital echo chamber” simulation.

Participant Reflections

“I see now how online comments can snowball into dangerous beliefs—and how to interrupt that.”

Outputs
A workshop video series called "ReFrame Berlin" is now available to local schools.