Tag: Maja Nenadovic

Depolarizing Dialogue (Netherlands)

EventsDePolarizing Dialogue. Speaker: Maja Nenadovic, Institute for Developing Across Differences, University of Groningen, Netherlands, 7-8 July 2025. Registration deadline: 3 May 2025.

DePolarizing Dialogue workshop with Maja NenadovicEveryday interactions increasingly provoke angry divisiveness , making civil discussion and respectful disagreements seemingly a thing of the past. Addresses the pressing issue of divisive rhetoric and polarized encounters in Europe and beyond – whether about the pandemic and self-expression, freedom of expression versus hurtful rhetoric, or otherwise.

Register for this workshop to help yourself and those you work with:
1. “Dial down” intense verbal encounters.
2. Diagnose communication problems in real time.
3. Apply “on the spot” strategies to transform polarizing interactions.

Maja Nenadovic Profile

ProfilesMaja Nenadovic holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, and is the co-founder of the Croatian Education and Development Network for the Evolution of Communication – HERMES and of Reflectory, a consultancy in the fields of conflict transformation, social cohesion and civic engagement.

Maja Nenadovic

Maya is a monitoring and evaluation specialist, dialogue facilitator, human rights & civic education specialist, debate coach, critical pedagogy practitioner, and program design consultant. She has worked in 40+ countries worldwide. Since 2012, she has implemented “Across Divides – Training Workshops for Depolarizing Communication,” a methodology that she developed and tested in the field through a series of workshops and dialogues with both individuals using discriminatory and hate speech rhetoric, and with people and groups targeted by it. In addition she serves as a Board member of the Global Dialogue Collective.

Work for CID:

Maja Nenadovic participated in a CID/UNESCO focus group for the Futures of Education Initiative, and is participating in an expert group organized by the Center.

Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom (Online)

EventsTHE CIVICS Innovation Hub and NECE campus: Healthy Conflict and Constructive Dialogue Classroom . Speaker: Maja Nenadovic, online, 26 September 2023 from 5:00 am to 6:30 am ADT.

During this workshop, the Educators’ Guide to Depolarisation will be presented, as well as navigating through some of its exercises, designed to encourage and equip teachers with methods for facilitating difficult conversations on controversial or polarising topics with their students. In addition, educational materials from the project Depolarisation Activism for Resilient Europe (DARE) will also be presented.

Maja Nenadovic is a practitioner and educator with 20 years of experience of working in the civic education, critical pedagogy, human rights education, Holocaust education and youth civic engagement fields. Next to designing original civic education and human rights education materials, she coordinated and facilitated several long-term civic education projects in the region of Western Balkans.

The NECE (Networking European Civic Education) Campus is an all-year-round online event series that provides a platform for educators, policymakers, civil society actors, and experts in citizenship education to learn, and exchange practices, research, tools, and methods related to democratic engagement and civic education. The series includes a diverse set of presentations, workshops, and capacity-building activities. It’s organised into functional and thematic tracks to cater to the needs of civic educators, covering a broad range of topics.

THE CIVICS is a a pan-European NGO with hubs in Bonn, Sofia and Zagreb with the goal of strengthening the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.