World Without Hate utilizes the power of personal narrative and empathy education to prevent and disrupt hate and violence

A 17,000 Mile Journey​

 

Pain & Peace, World Without Hate’s first full-length documentary, captures the courageous stories of extraordinary people, victims and victimizers alike, all of whom share their remarkable capacities to heal, persevere and empathize — seeking purpose while searching for peace.

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America’s Mass Shootings: A

Survivor’s Open Letter to Congress

I write this with a heavy heart, burdened by the weight of our nation’s continual mass shootings. Horrific events like the Rob Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, TX – now more than a year ago –seem to have become a normal part of American life. Mass shootings in the U.S. are on record pace for 2023. Roughly every week a community in our country faces this kind of deadly violence, just the other day in Chicago. In the aftermath at Sandy Hook Elementary School, over a decade ago, the entire nation cried out for help. Instead of valuing human life with meaningful reform, you shared hollow prayers and empty condolences. You, the very people who are elected to protect us.

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Before 9/11, Rais didn’t stand out as “other” but immediately after the attacks was labeled a terrorist and a threat to society because of his race and perceived faith. Years later, when his attacker came to know Rais, he called him brother. Rais believes and shares that “Once you get to know the other, it’s hard for you hate them.”

With so much misinformation, ignorance, and the lack of empathy in American society which creates an environment for spreading fear, lies, intolerance and hate, pinning humans against humans. Hate crime in America, including vandalism, intimidation, assault, and murder has risen to levels not seen in over a decade, according to federal data. Hate crime, defined by the FBI, is “a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.”

In 2020, the Southern Poverty Law Center tracked 838 hate groups across the U.S. The FBI recorded 8,052 single-bias incidents involving 11,126 victims in 2020. Of these, 61.8% of victims were targeted because of race and ethnicity, 20% because of perceived sexual-orientation, and 13.3% religion. Experts agree that this data remains severely undercounted because many victims of hate crime fail to report and unfortunately, local agencies are not yet required to report hate crime data to the FBI.

These statistics point to the overwhelmingly stark reality of growing hate in America. This saying nothing about the implicit bias and microaggression permeating our communities. This is our call to action. Each of us has the capacity to turn negatives into positives, ignorance into wisdom, fear into courage, and hate into love. Together, we can increase empathy for “the other,” paving the way for a world without violence, a world without victims, and a world without hate.

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United We Stand: Before & After the Summit

As I stood in the crowded East Room during the conclusion of the first of its kind, United We Stand Summit, President Biden reminded us that “The power is within each of us to transform the story of our time to rise together against hate, to show who we are. We are the United States of America. There nothing, nothing, beyond our capacity.” The President’s address, More

He (Rais) had every reason to hate this country and now everything does is to make this country better.~Alex Rozier
Combating Hate: Empathy Through Storytelling
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The True American by Anand Giridharadas.