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Rachel Brown was a Simon-Skjodt Center Genocide Prevention Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014. She used her fellowship to conceptualize and author the Defusing Hate guide and workbooks, which she now draws from to provide technical support to organizations and assess new opportunities for pilot projects.

Prior to her fellowship, Rachel was the CEO of Sisi ni Amani-Kenya, a Kenyan NGO she founded to pioneer new strategies for building local capacity in peace-building and civic engagement, most notably through the creation of a text-messaging model and platform to support local community efforts. For this work, she was recognized as a 2012 PopTech Social Innovation Fellow. She has also worked as a tenant organizer in Boston, Ma ...more

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Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech

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“People tend to accept information that confirms their existing beliefs and feelings, and reject information that contradicts them. This is called “motivated reasoning,” and it means that providing people with corrective information often does not work and may even strengthen their original beliefs. This also means that when people receive new information, their existing beliefs and feelings may have more influence over whether they believe or reject this information than rational reasoning.”
― Rachel Hilary Brown, Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech

tags: belief-system, belief-systems, confirmation-bias, influence, influencing-people, motivated-reasoning, motivation

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“Confronting information that directly challenges existing beliefs can be psychologically threatening to people, especially if the information challenges their sense of identity.”
― Rachel Hilary Brown, Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech

tags: correcting, corrections, correctness, education, identity, ignorance, influencing-people, information

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“Hutu extremists were able to incite genocide in Rwanda in part because years of propaganda had influenced Hutus to view Tutsis as less than human and so dangerous that they must be eliminated from the country.”
― Rachel Hilary Brown, Defusing Hate: A Strategic Communication Guide to Counteract Dangerous Speech

tags: genocide, hate-speech

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