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George Weiss

George Weiss

Founding Director / CEO, Radio La Benevolencija Humanitarian Tools Foundation (RLB)

Eradicate Hate:
2022, 2023

George Weiss is the founder and CEO of Radio La Benevolencija Humanitarian Tools Foundation (“RLB”), an organization that sets up media projects using fiction to teach populations to resist hate speech and incitement to identity-based violence, using psycho-education embedded in the preferred media entertainement formats (soap operas, videogames etc) of vulnerable target audiences.. Based on Weiss’ work for La Benevolencija Sarajevo, a unique local NGO during the Bosnian War of 1992-95, RLB’s work counters the polarization of National audiences and promotes an agenda of sanity, empathy and mutual help among groups and individuals who are targets of hate speech.

A Film and Television Producer, Weiss moved into Humanitarian Activist Media in 2002 when he set up RLB. The organization’s African Great Lakes Reconciliation Media project – a violence prevention project still ongoing in Rwanda, the DR Congo and Burundi, has gained international acclaim for its unique combination of applied psychology with entertainment-education techniques. The same methodology is now applied in interventions to fight radicalization in the online- and videogaming space in European countries and aims to expand worldwide in a push to create National audiences that become resilient to polarization, Hate incitement and identity-based violence.

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It is a tragic reality that hateful ideology has found fertile ground online and offline, with consequences affecting not only Americans but people around the world. We cannot stand idle in the face of bias, bigotry, and extremism. Together, at the Eradicate Hate Summit and beyond, the collective will of individuals and organizations is needed to galvanize all people of good will to protect and defend our communities.

George Selim
George Selim Senior Vice President for National Affairs, Anti-Defamation League (ADL)