Panelists
Panelists
PANEL TWO. SOCIAL PLATFORMS AS A TOOL FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF HATE –
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Cecilia Barbieri
In September 2019, Cecilia joined the Section of Global Citizenship and Peace Education as chief, coming from the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile, where she was in charge of the Education 2030 Section. Before joining UNESCO Santiago, she has worked as Education Specialist with UNESCO since 1999, mainly in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the organization, she worked in the field of technical and vocational training and institutional capacity building, and was engaged for many years in culture of peace, human rights, and intercultural education.
Cecilia Barbieri
In September 2019, Cecilia joined the Section of Global Citizenship and Peace Education as chief, coming from the UNESCO Regional Bureau for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile, where she was in charge of the Education 2030 Section. Before joining UNESCO Santiago, she has worked as Education Specialist with UNESCO since 1999, mainly in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the organization, she worked in the field of technical and vocational training and institutional capacity building, and was engaged for many years in culture of peace, human rights, and intercultural education.More
Ronan Lee
Dr Ronan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries where his research focusses on the Rohingya, genocide, hate speech, migration, and Asian politics.
Ronan’s book “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech” was published by Bloomsbury in 2021, and he was awarded the 2021 Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Ronan has a professional background in politics, media, and public policy.More
Ronan Lee
Dr Ronan Lee is a Doctoral Prize Fellow at Loughborough University London’s Institute for Media and Creative Industries where his research focusses on the Rohingya, genocide, hate speech, migration, and Asian politics.
Ronan’s book “Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech” was published by Bloomsbury in 2021, and he was awarded the 2021 Early Career Emerging Scholar Prize by the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Ronan has a professional background in politics, media, and public policy.More
Doc. PhDr. Michal Vašečka, PhD. is sociologist by background and public intellectual by choice. He serves as a program director of the Bratislava Policy Institute in Bratislava since 2017, and as an Associate Professor he operates at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts since 2015. Michal studied at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Masaryk University in Brno, and at the New School University in New York. He focuses his interests on issues of ethnicity, race, and migration studies, as well as populism, extremism, antisemitism, and social movements.More
Doc. PhDr. Michal Vašečka, PhD. is sociologist by background and public intellectual by choice. He serves as a program director of the Bratislava Policy Institute in Bratislava since 2017, and as an Associate Professor he operates at the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts since 2015. Michal studied at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Masaryk University in Brno, and at the New School University in New York. He focuses his interests on issues of ethnicity, race, and migration studies, as well as populism, extremism, antisemitism, and social movements.More
University, Japan
Dr. Patrick Hein, born in Luxembourg, is a political scientist. He earned a Master degree in politics at Marburg University in Germany and a PhD in philosophy at Sunderland University in the UK. He teaches politics and sociology at various universities in Japan. He is an editorial board member of the journal “East Asia”, a member of Genocide Scholars and a news correspondent for the daily “Voice of Luxembourg” in Japan. He has published articles about German-Japanese post-war patterns of war reconciliation and national identity and about genocide, war trauma, comfort women, forced labor and war atrocities in Asia. He was short-listed as UN rapporteur of Human Rights in Cambodia candidate in 2014 and has been invited to give lectures at the KU Leuven University Institute of Transitional Justice.
Dr. Patrick Hein, born in Luxembourg, is a political scientist. He earned a Master degree in politics at Marburg University in Germany and a PhD in philosophy at Sunderland University in the UK. He teaches politics and sociology at various universities in Japan. He is an editorial board member of the journal “East Asia”, a member of Genocide Scholars and a news correspondent for the daily “Voice of Luxembourg” in Japan. He has published articles about German-Japanese post-war patterns of war reconciliation and national identity and about genocide, war trauma, comfort women, forced labor and war atrocities in Asia. He was short-listed as UN rapporteur of Human Rights in Cambodia candidate in 2014 and has been invited to give lectures at the KU Leuven University Institute of Transitional Justice.
Warfare Expert, The Netherlands
Robert is a Dutch engineer and analist who lived for years in different countries in Eastern Europe, which aroused his interest in studying and analyzing (Russian) hybrid warfare, propaganda, disinfo and trolls.
After finishing his post-academic journalism studies at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam he started developing ways to detect trolls and disinfo campaigns on social media. More
Robert is a Dutch engineer and analist who lived for years in different countries in Eastern Europe, which aroused his interest in studying and analyzing (Russian) hybrid warfare, propaganda, disinfo and trolls.
After finishing his post-academic journalism studies at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam he started developing ways to detect trolls and disinfo campaigns on social media. More