Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies

27/04/2021

CRIS Issues Papers are designed to assist in our aim to keep communities strong, safe and well through positive community and policy interventions.

We're proud to release our first CRIS Issues Paper: "Racism in Australia: filling data gaps".

https://lnkd.in/gUn3gyV

14/04/2021

"Teaching for empathy is about opening the window for connecting with and caring for others. In relation to gender justice, teaching for empathy is important because it invites boys and men to imagine standing in the shoes of girls and women; to be moved to better understand their feelings, thoughts and experiences..."

New Blog! CRIS member Amanda Keddie tells us there’s an urgent need to teach empathy but not everyone will connect or care in this piece originally published in EduResearch Matters.

Sometimes our frames of reference are too narrow and limited for us to comprehend alternative ways of knowing and being. Our frames of reference limit our capacity to empathise

14/04/2021

Looking for a PhD Opportunity? Find out more about joining our 'Youth, Diversity and Wellbeing in a Digital Age' stream and work alongside experienced researchers and community groups and conduct cutting-edge research on social cohesion, racism & discrimination, digital and and networks, plus more.

An opportunity to join an exciting team of experienced researchers in Stream 2 (Building Resilience to Social Harms, Including Violent Extremism) working in the following areas of research focus:

30/03/2021

The Tackling Hate project led by Dr Matteo Vergani provides a directory of organisation and institutions across Australia supporting different groups within society, including Victorian Arabic Social Services, Victorian Pride Lobby, Australian Muslim Women's Centre for Human Rights, Executive Council of Australian Jewry - ECAJ and more.

The directory also identifies the initiatives each organisation and institution engages in to tackle hate crimes, hate speech and incidents.

Find out more about the Tackling Hate project.

Tackling Hate Project

29/03/2021

Violence against women remains a serious and widespread problem in Australia with enormous impacts and social costs. What are some of the ways we can tackle gendered violence? Professor Amanda Keddie from Deakin University leads this CRIS project looking at Issues of masculinity and social cohesion through a review of programs for young men. Listen to Amanda explain the project here:

Gendered violence has led to the development of community based programs designed to support men and boys to adopt more respectful and inclusive attitudes and behaviours. While most programs are positive in supporting these goals, they can differ markedly in their political approach. Approaches may....

16/03/2021

"By coming to a new country, you change. As I have. You learn to love that country. As I have. You learn to struggle to hold on to that love, and your idea of your place in that country, in the face of racism and discrimination. As I have. It is all a process of becoming Australian. And through this process of changing and becoming, there is room to expand the very idea of who can be encompassed in the concept of Australianness." - Nyadol Nyuon
Lawyer and human rights advocate

The Sydney Morning Herald

What this country decides to do now, in the face of the turmoils across the world and at home, will become the legacy, and the inheritance for the future.

24/02/2021

📣Check out this week's with CRIS member Dr Vivian Gerrand!

📚 'Having and being had', by Eula Biss. Vivian tells us it's a thought-provoking series of essays reflecting upon the author’s relationship to capitalism.

📚 'Our Malady', by Timothy Snyder

🎤 'Private Affairs' podcast

23/02/2021

Do you work for, or represent a youth sector organisation? Our Living Labs Mini-Summit with Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) is an intergenerational Roundtable to generate project ideas and action plans to support positive change for diverse youth. Email [email protected] for more info.

16/02/2021

📣Victorians! What are your plans on the 21-28 March 2020?

Celebrate, share and embrace our state's cultural diversity.

16/02/2021

The ABC launches a new diversity and inclusion commissioning guidelines for screen content. Read all about it 👇

The ABC's new guidelines will ensure more diverse faces, voices, cultures and stories are reflected and represented on Australian screens.

08/02/2021

📣CRIS member Prof Greg Barton writes: 'To shut down far-right extremism in Australia, we must confront the ecosystem of hate' in his piece in The Conversation 👇

http://bit.ly/3tIlV1Y

Why not find out more about the work our team is doing on tackling hate and understanding the impact of hateful speech and incidents.👇

https://www.crisconsortium.org/stream-2-project-1