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Exercises focusing on freedom of religion or belief
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Here you can find a collection of interactive exercises designed to help participants learn about what the human right to freedom of religion or belief involves and what it should mean in their societies, and to reflect upon their attitudes both towards the issues and to people with different convictions than their own.
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Key to symbols
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Exercises
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The Trans-Siberian railway
An exercise that explores our prejudices by asking participants to choose which passengers they would most or least like to share a sleeping compartment with on a night train. 
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Dots and stickers
A simple, quick exercise highlighting our tendency to think and behave in terms of ‘them’ and ‘us’ 
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The picture exercise
A reflection and discussion based exercise using pictures to get people thinking about what freedom of religion or belief means to them. 
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One step forwards
An great exercise that helps participants put themselves in other people's shoes and think about how different people can be affected very differently by social, political and economic challenges. 
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The President's advisor
What advice would you give the President when people or groups complain that their rights have been violated. Would you recommend changing the law? 
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The heart of FORB
A quick buzz group exercise that helps to make sure participants have understood what they have heard in a theory presentation on the contents of freedom of religion or belief. 
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The traffic light exercise
A great exercise to get small and very large groups interacting and sharing their knowledge about and attitudes towards FORB. A twist on the classic agree-disagree exercise. 
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The barometer game
A good exercise for the beginning of a training, this 'agree-disagree' exercise helps participants reflect upon how they perceive Freedom of Religion or Belief (FORB) and the extent to which it is in line with their values. 
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Case study discussions
A group discussion exercise in which participants learn to do a simple analysis of FORB violations in pre-prepared cases, using the three phase tool. 
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Legitimate limitations?
A plenary discussion exercise in which participants use the knowledge they have learned to assess whether concrete examples of limitations to freedom of religion or belief are legitimate or not. 
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Discussion questions
A useful set of discussion questions that can be used for buzz-groups during teaching sessions on FORB. The questions relate directly to the contents of the Stefanus Alliance booklet Freedom of Religion or Belief for everyone, but selected questions can easily be used with our films, or in teaching you design yourself. 
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COMING SOON Discussion questions linked to the Learning platform films
Suggested questions for personal reflection or group discussion including both general questions that can apply to any of the films and specific questions relating to each of the films. |