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Date Shared: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - 10:26
Title: 

The Anti-Rumour Strategy (ARS), Spain

Countries and areas: 
Spain
Partner(s): 
City of Barcelona
Tags: 
Discrimination and Xenophobia
Summary: 

The Barcelona Anti-Rumour Strategy is a line of action of the Barcelona Interculturality Programme. They generate tools and discourses for dispelling these rumours and stereotypes, and thus to move ahead towards living together in a more intercultural and cohesive society.

The following actions are implemented:

  • Organising awareness-raising campaigns based on a variety of formats (comics, badges, cups, guides, handbooks) and actions through websites and social media.
  • Taking action with a territorial approach, providing neighbourhoods and districts (services, public facilities, schools) with free  activities for anti-rumour awareness-raising and intercultural reflection (workshops, participatory theatre plays, debates and so on). These proposals are put together in a catalogue of activities that is renewed each year since 2012.
  • Providing free training as well, in order to share anti-rumour arguments and tools for communication with the public. People attending these training sessions become anti-rumour agents.
GFMD Source: 

GFMD 2017 - RT 3.2 Background Paper - "Strengthening cooperation – Enabling Civil Society Contributions in Migrant Integration"

Link: 

For more information: 

  • http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/bcnacciointercultural/en/training-anti-r...

Source (retrieved on 04/13/2026 - 12:33): https://www.gfmd.org/pfp/ppd/5959