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Lecture of EAJC General Council Member Vyacheslav Likhachev

Seminar in Kirovograd Pedagogical University

On the 20th of April, a seminar for future journalists dedicated to the specifics of covering stories connected with tolerance, xenophobia, migration, and the life of national minorities.

The event was organized by the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine (CNCU. Executive Vice Presiden – Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Council Chairman Josef Zisels) together with the Center of Civil Education as part of the widescale project Ukrainian Books for Fostering Tolerance, which is taking place with the financial support of the Netherlands organizations Anne Frank House and the Fund of Central and East European Book Projects.

During the seminar, the future journalists learned about the basic definitions of tolerance, xenophobia, and hate speech, listened to a lecture on international relations and manifestations of xenophobia in present day Ukraine and in the world, and were able to reinforce the information they just learned through practical activities and excersizes. The lectures were read by EAJC General Council member, politologist and journalist Vyacheslav Likhachev, and the excersizes were given by psychologist Kira Kreiderman (Chisinau, Moldova). The students also received a set of books published as part of the project, including the CNCU textbook "Policulturica: How to Organize the Fostering of Tolerance in School and Out-of-Class Activities," among others.