The report Building Commonality, by academics at the University of Kent, presents key outcomes of the charity’s anti-bullying, peer education, and anti-extremism workshops.
Findings include that 87.6 per cent of young people, aged 11 to 16, who took part achieved significant progress in their:
knowledge about prejudice
attitudes towards stereotypes
confidence to report prejudice-related bullying
feelings of empathy towards others
The report also reveals that 77.1 per cent of participants show more positive attitudes and 76.1 per cent have increased feelings of commonality to those different from themselves.
Of those young people who started out with little or no understanding of extremism, 94.6 per cent recognised that prejudice is dangerous and can cause extremism, the research shows.
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