diversity and rights - challenging racism
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Training for those involved in developing racist reporting system in Sligo under EU Peace III initiative.TRANSCRIPT
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Dr Alan BruceUniversal Learning Systems – Dublin
Sligo3 September 2013
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To provide a training program in key themes and issues in diversity management to support personal and professional competence in dealing confidently with human and social difference in contexts of recording and referring racist incidents.
Outline of cultural, socio-economic and diversity issues Analysis of diversity management issues and strategies in contexts of changing societiesAnalysis of best practice in understanding and dealing with prejudice and discrimination
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Background to equality and diversity in contemporary society
Conflict, communications and culture Legal, social and economic dimensions of inequality Changing nature of Irish society Learning needs in a changing environment Description of origin and nature of racism Learning and applying interculturalism Diversity as springboard for innovation and collaboration Developing knowledge and practice From legal obligation to innovative advantage
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• Self-awareness on bias, stereotypes, discrimination and prejudices about diverse groups
• Understanding key elements in human difference• Cross cultural communications • Interculturalism and institutional discrimination• Diversity competence and dealing with racism• Organizational culture: equal opportunities• Techniques and methods in managing diversity• Engaging with diversity – specific recording,
analytical and advocacy issues
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Conceptual backgroundsContours of change Interculturalism and the OtherUnderstanding diversityShaping required competenciesEngaging with rights - best practice
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Biological origins Evident differences – inherent rankStratification and assumptionsScientific racism – eugenicsHierarchy: superior and inferiorStereotypical portrayalXenophobia; supremacism;
segregation Institutional racism
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Francis Galton (1822-1911): eugenics and degeneration
Social darwinism and Spengler: degraded jazz and negro dancing
Gobineau (1855): race and inequality Lapouge (1854-1936): Aryans-
Caucasians Madison Grant (1916): basis for
Immigration Act (1924) Human zoos and Nazis
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What is the evidence for racism in Ireland?
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Globalization process and impact
Labour market and workinnovation, competitiveness, adaptability
Paradigms of inclusion equality and diversity
Standards, skills, transferability and inclusion learning and development in unequal environments
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Seismic shift in human relationshipsCompetitive pressuresNew forms of work organizationNew diversities Instant, multidimensional
communicationsQuality standards
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Patterns of constant change Permanent migration mobility Identity and threat: where are we? Threat and reaction to threat End of welfare: demographic time-bombs Knowledge, innovation and democratic
deficit Structural inequalities
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Rights of Man: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Thematic mythologies - social inclusion and mainstreaming
Legacies of struggleHidden pasts:
colonialism, fascism, exterminism
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Constitutional rights: Life, Liberty,the Pursuit of Happiness
All men are created equal… but… Final frontiers: immigration, assimilation,
success, opportunity Hidden poisons - slavery, race, eugenics Back to the future -
Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo… and Arizona
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Persistence and increase in inequality
Permanent hopelessness of excluded
Embedded violence Internal underclass Invisibility and ethnic difference
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What are the key factors in Irish society that drive social change?
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Rate of changeRural to urban > Boom to bustMonocultural stereotypes Inward migration and new
demographicsRe-defined Irishness International standards and ethics
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InteractionEmpathyCommunicationKnowledgeRemoval of prejudiceLinked themes: gender, power,
violence, values
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Permit exchangeGreater knowledgePresumed growth in tolerance,
acceptance, non-discriminationEnhanced learning
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Vladimir Spidla (9.6.08) Promoting tolerance not enough Racism requires policies on
diversity, laws, anti-discrimination measures
Ongoing issues around cost implications, ambiguities, resistance, rights
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Agreed definition of multiculturalAdjustment and accommodationMelting pot or mosaicSeparate developmentBeliefs, values and practicesSymbols, language and behaviour
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Radical re-structuring of world economy
Interconnected information/communication
Differential access to resourcesProfessional competenceDealing with transformational changeEnsuring recognition and respect
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Mutual interaction or structured exclusion?
Community values or communal rituals?
Linkage to realities or past models?Shared memories or shared hatreds?
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What should an intercultural Ireland look like?
How can this be constructed?
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New frameworks of social differenceClassical formulationsChallenges and conflict Integration or assimilationDiscovery and engagement
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AbandoningArrivingApplyingAdapting
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AttitudesPrejudiceStereotypesDiscriminationHarassment
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Attitudes Organized through experience Shaped by background Enduring disposition towards
people/objects/events Exerts dynamic influence May be both negative and positive Not permanent - can be changed
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StereotypesPre-established expectation about
individual or groupMental shortcutSees all within a group as the same In-group and out-groupAffects perceiver and perceived
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Prejudice Negative attitude based on perception of group
membership Inflexible Learned through socialization Ignorant - but not illegal
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RidiculeAvoidanceDiscriminationPhysical attackExtermination
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Stories of prejudice from your personal experience
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Integrating in civil societyParamount importance of labour
marketCitizenshipLanguage competenceMulti-agency partnerships
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Managing diversity - the disciplineUS originsPrinciples involvedAvoiding conflictAchieving integrationDeriving mutual benefit
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Diversity vs. equalityRole of legislationRelationship to community Justice and enforcementTokenism and surface approachesAscertaining facts
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Interculturalism trainingDisability awareness competenceMentoring: diversity championsResearched best practice: reviewedLinguistic skillsComfort with difference: trustContact and observational listening
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What is our role in developing trust?
What is our role in developing shred communication?
What is advocacy? How do we act as advocates? Should we act as advocates?
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New issues - new opportunities Applied learning and research Active partnership with diverse
communities Impact of integration will produce change -
plan and prepare How do we record incidents? How do we understand what we record? Can we be objective? What happens to our records? Why do we record?
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Valued diversity Democratic engagement Community empowerment Mutual benefit Legislative underpinning From tolerance to recognition Shared learning Acknowledged pasts - shared futures
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Challenging norms - what is indigenous culture?
Challenging stereotypes Talent, competence and communicative
empathy Engagement with difference Embedded vision Recognition - seeing the Other
seeing ourselves