Designed by the Hrant Dink Foundation, the Inclusive Language Workshop is based on the premise that using inclusive language is one of the most effective and sustainable ways to combat hate speech. The workshop aims to raise awareness to strengthen coexistence and contribute to the establishment of a new, human rights-oriented language. In this regard, it seeks to make visible the discriminatory, exclusionary, and polarizing forms of language—which stand as significant obstacles to social peace and freedom—and aims to transform this language through a rights-based and inclusive approach.
Designed using non-formal education methods, the workshop will provide a learning environment where participants can learn from one another, share experiences, and meet on common ground. Participants will have the opportunity to notice the invisible and everyday forms of discriminatory discourse, evaluate this discourse critically, and develop an alternative language together.
The workshop is based on the accumulation of the Hrant Dink Foundation's "Monitoring Hate Speech and Discriminatory Discourse in the Print Media" project, which has been carried out since 2009. It aims to strengthen participants' critical evaluation skills for identifying, analyzing, and transforming discriminatory and hate-filled discourses produced in the media. In this respect, it adopts a holistic approach aimed at contributing to the transformation of language in the public sphere and the media.
The concrete outputs of the Inclusive Language Workshop emerge through both conceptual awareness and practical group work, specifically the 'Analyze the News' and 'Produce an Inclusive Discourse' sessions. The workshop does not only aim to convey a conceptual framework; it also intends for participants to gain critical awareness and implementation skills that will reflect on their daily practices.
In the first part of the workshop, the relationship between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination is addressed; hate speech and its effects are discussed. The output of this section is for participants to be able to recognize discriminatory discourse, notice its invisible forms, and develop a critical consciousness regarding the social impacts of language.
In the 'Analyze the News' session, participants examine a news text based on targeted identities, the tone of the language used, stereotypes, information sources, and potential impacts. This process strengthens media literacy.
In the 'Produce an Inclusive Discourse' session, participants reconstruct the news they analyzed from an inclusive perspective; they plan which values they will rely on, which audience they will reach, and through which medium. This provides an experience in producing an alternative and transformative language.
These outputs aim to contribute to social peace by raising awareness to strengthen coexistence and encouraging the establishment of a new, human rights-oriented language.
Language: Turkish
Participation: Open to everyone.
Capacity: 16 people
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