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CMU and Pitt Launch Center Dedicated to Combating Extremist Hate
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PITTSBURGH, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are jointly launching a new center to study extremist hate. Scholars at both universities will partner through the Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center to develop effective tools that inhibit hate s creation, growth and destructive consequences.
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The center will bring together the collective expertise from all relevant disciplines including computer science, data science, social sciences, psychology, psychiatry and the law as collaborators seek to better understand and combat hatred based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation and other prejudices.
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Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh are joining forces in a new research center designed to study and seek ways to halt the proliferation of extremist hate.
The announcement comes amid rising fears about ethnic violence against Asian Americans. On Tuesday night in Atlanta, a gunman killed eight people, six of Asian descent, at three massage parlors.
The genesis of the new center to study extremist hate, however, dates back more than two years.
Officials said the Collaboratory Against Hate Research and Action Center is the result of conversations spurred by the Oct. 27, 2018, Tree of Life synagogue attack in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood that left 11 worshippers dead after a gunman stormed the building, home to three congregations, during Saturday morning services.
The man who stormed the Tree of Life synagogue building on Oct. 27, 2018, murdering 11 congregants in the midst of Shabbat prayer, was an active user of the social
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