Kinston Mayor Don Hardy to visit Batislava, Slovakia in March
Washington, DC---Mayor Dontario Hardy, Kinston, NC has been invited to participate in a workshop on enhancing city responses to the local impact of global crises, which will take place at City Hall in Bratislava, Slovakia, from 6 - 7 March 2024. Discussions among city officials on both sides of the Atlantic will examine pressing challenges they are facing in the current geopolitical climate as well as identify good practices for mayors and local governments to address threats to social cohesion and local democracy and to respond to and recover from hate- or extremist-motivated violence. The workshop is being financed by the U.S. Department of State.
The event is part of Strong Cities’ Transatlantic Dialogue Initiative (TDI), which facilitates cooperation among mayors, local governments, and practitioners in Europe and North America in preventing hate, extremism, and polarization that can lead to violence and addressing the disinformation and conspiracy narratives that not only exacerbate these threats but threaten local democracy.
The workshop also builds on the Network’s ongoing efforts to support cities as they seek to maintain community cohesion in the face of global crises – from climate change to international and regional conflicts to migration – that are having increasing local impacts.
Conference themes will include:
• The impact of global crises on social cohesion: how international conflicts, affect community relationships and social cohesion in local communities and how cities can mitigate their negative effect.
• The consequences of disinformation in global crises: how disinformation during global events intensifies disputes and undermines social trust and how cities can respond.
• The rise of hate speech related to global conflicts: how international conflicts impact local communities, with a focus on the rise of hate speech and its implications and what local leaders and governments can do to stem the rising tide of hate in their cities.
• Resilience in the aftermath of conflict and violence: city-led response, recovery, and rehabilitation.
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