The International Network for Hate Studies (INHS) is a global community of scholars,practitioners, and activists dedicated to advancing the understanding of hate, bias, andextremism. The network provides a platform for sharing research, resources, and best practices to address and combat the complex issues surrounding hate and social harm. Through collaborative efforts, the INHS aims to…
By Sergei Katsuba, University College, Dublin, Ireland In December 2023, the Russian Supreme Court labeled the “international LGBT movement” as extremist. This decision marked the culmination of a troubling 30-year journey from the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1993 to the enactment of the “gay propaganda law” in 2013 and finally to the “extremist” status in…
By Charlotte Freihse & Vladimir Bojarskich Interventions against hate speech emerge almost daily. Measures range from policies to tech-innovations, to counter speech projects. Given the diverse approaches to counter hate speech online, we developed a hate speech interventions map to highlight the distinct approaches of different kinds of interventions. Furthermore, we suggest that a research-…
By Mark Walters, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology, University of Sussex. Pride month is a celebration of all things LGBTQ+. Yet recently it has become a source of division, both between LGBTQ+ communities and wider society, as well as between subgroups within the community itself. Of particular contention has been the use of a…
By Daria Denti, Economist, and Assistant Professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics The spread of hate has stimulated institutional commitments in victim support, deterrence, and the investigation of local risk and protective factors associated with the emergence of hate. Current research on risk…
by Michael Dhanoya and Dr Chris Allen, University of Leicester In recent months, a number of events have catalysed a rise in Shiaphobia. Unlike Islamophobia which typically refers to religiously-motivated hate perpetrated by non-Muslims against Muslims, Shiaphobia may be loosely defined as religiously-motivated hate perpetrated by Sunni Muslims against Shi’a Muslims. Here in the UK,…
This article was originally published by DiKKO on 01.03.2022 We, Maria Dumitru and Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen, are calling Nataliia Tomenko, a young Roma woman, academic and activist, who woke up to her beloved country at war. She cannot tell us what day it is. She only knows it’s the fourth day of the war. In the…
By Sarthak Gupta In India, the polarization in religion between the majority community and the minority community has been long-drawn-out because of rich-cultural history. However, from the 19th Century, the foremost root of political and societal polarization in India has been a foundational question of nationhood – Should India be a secular republic or a…
By Daria Denti Online hate and places Despite being a digital phenomenon, online hate speech does not happen is a spatial vacuum. Digital hatemongers are grounded in a spatial environment which might influence their behaviors and beliefs. Nonetheless, the influence of places on cyberhate production is only rarely investigated. Recent studies show that cyberhate does…
By Jon Garland, Jo Smith, Mark Walters and Irene Zempi On December 7th the Law Commission for England and Wales published its long awaited final report on hate crime laws. In 2018 the Government requested that the Commission look into whether the law should be expanded to include new characteristics (including gender or sex) and…
International Network for Hate Studies (INHS) Spotlight Seminar Series
March 10, 2025
Authoritarian backlash on LGBTQ rights: a case of Russian anti-LGBTQ laws and the increase in the level of hate crime that they triggered
August 2, 2024
The Online Hate Speech Interventions Map
August 15, 2023
Is the burning of the Pride flag a hate crime?
June 28, 2023
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