SAVE youth has organized a workshop titled ‘countering dangerous speech’ in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University on 10 August 2022. 66 participants from different discipline joined in the workshop. Among them 21 were female and 45 were male participants. Aynul Islam, national moderator of SAVE Youth Bangladesh conducted the session. Dr. Hasibur Rahman, dean of the faculty of social sciences was the chief guest of the program. This workshop had been conducted in partnership with Resiliency Initiative (RI) and support from the Asia Foundation (TAF) and Meta (Facebook) as a part of the youth campaign “#nodangerousspeechbd”.
The key purposes of this workshop are (i) to promote digital learning, networking, and mentorship for youth (ages 18-27) interested in addressing online dangerous speech; (ii) to support youth to collaboratively design and implement social media counter and positive messaging campaigns to address dangerous speech; and (iii) to share the dangerous speech framework, hallmarks, messages, and sociopolitical contexts of how the speech contributes to the incitement of condoning collective violence against each other groups.
SAVE Youth leaders are campaigning against all forms of dangerous speech in Bangladesh. Another workshop will be held on 11 August 2022 in Barisal University.