The Centre for Hate Studies
Manifesto for Change
Supported by Economic and Social Research Council Impact Accelerator Account funding, the Centre for Hate Studies and Protection Approaches partnered to create our co-written Manifesto for Change.
This Manifesto is a clear and empirically grounded set of ten recommendations. Within this work, we propose achievable, measurable and resource-efficient solutions and call for urgent change. Our work not only responds to immediate and longstanding challenges relating to hate crime, but also addresses wider issues of violent and online crime; general victim support, satisfaction and confidence; and social cohesion, resilience and community safety.
To create the Manifesto for Change, we conducted an in-depth review of both organisations’ extensive body of research evidence and conducted an extensive sector wide consultation that engaged with civil society, policy makers, those with lived experience, academics, practitioners and front line professionals from within and beyond the hate crime sector.
Read our one-page summary and our full 16-page Manifesto for Change here:
Read the manifesto (PDF, 1.31MB)
To reach a broader, policy-facing audience we produced a briefing paper with support from the Institute for Policy which you can read here: Tackling Hate Crime
To support this work and future collaborations whilst also ensuring the issues and solutions to tackling hate crime remain clear and accessible to wider audiences, we commissioned Feel Good Films to help turn our work into a micro-short film.
Through ongoing collaboration with criminal justice agencies, local authorities, charities and civil society, we are working to ensure that the vision set out in our Manifesto delivers real and lasting change for those affected by hate.