About
The Global StopCyberbullying Telesummit is the largest bullying and cyberbullying event held worldwide. We are already in the 4th. edition!
More than talking about the problem, let’s talk about solutions.
During the month of October (European Cybersecurity Month and Bullying Prevention), Cristiane Miranda, Sónia Seixas and Tito de Morais organize and promote the 4th Edition of the Global StopCyberbullying Telesummit.
Every working day, we will hear from several experts who come to talk to us about how to prevent, identify, intervene and tackle bullying and cyberbullying.
It will be 20 days, 30 hours, about 30 guests who will talk to us about topics as varied as:
- Technologies to prevent and combat cyberbullying
- Prevention of suicide and self-harming behaviors on the Internet
- Positive education and education for peace
- Non-violent communication
- Bullying in video games
- Image-based sexual violence
- Bullying in sports
We’re sure you won’t want to miss out. Even His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, made a point of being present.
Sessions will be conducted in Portuguese or English, depending on the guest. The sessions in English will have, for the first time, simultaneous translation into Portuguese.
Check the program, register and come with us to make a difference!
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Organizers
Cristiane Miranda
Founder, Teen On Top - Coaching for Youth, PortugalAfter 20 years in the business world, in 2016 she embarked on different areas, which brought her a vision of working directly with people, which led her to find her life purpose and do what fulfills her: helping others through coaching. As a result she created a specific program, Teen On Top - Coaching for Young People, where she helps young people to reach their true potential, giving support to parents in their task of educating their children. It should be noted that she has over 20 years of experience volunteering with children and young people. She also created the Teen On Top-School Edition, a program for schools, where she helps students to define their goals and through which she also works on their self-esteem and self-confidence. In 2021, together with Tito de Morais, she created the project “Agarrados à Net – Como Gerir o Tempo Online dos Teus Filhos” (Clinging To The Net - How to Manage Your Children’s Online Time), whose mission is to help parents and educators better manage the time their children spend behind a screen, as well as help the kids to better manage their time online by themselves, in a practical, simple and relaxed way. Among other programs, they developed the “217 Challenge - 7 Steps to Positive Digital Parenting”, the “What Kind of Digital Parents Are We” and the program “Faz-te Ouvir! Dá a Volta ao [Cyber]Bullying!” (Make Yourself Heard! Turn [Cyber]Bullying Around!).
Sónia Seixas
Psychologist, Higher Education Teacher, PortugalBorn in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970, has a degree in Social Anthropology from I.S.C.T.E. and Educational Psychology from I.S.P.A.. Has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Coimbra, with a thesis on bullying behaviors and health. Teaches in higher education since 1998, mainly teaching courses in the context of developmental and learning psychology, currently teaching at the Santarém’s School of Higher Education. Co-Author of the books "Plano Bullying - Como Apagar o Bullying da Escola", "Diz não ao Bullying - Não deixes que te façam mal!" and "Cyberbullying - Um guia para pais e educadores".
Tito de Morais
The Internet Safety Guy, PortugalWas an external evaluator of “Cyber Training – Taking Action Against Cyberbullying”, a project that produced a train-the-trainer manual on cyberbullying. Is a co-author of the book "Cyberbullying - A guide for parents and educators" (Portugal, 2016) and of a chapter of the book "Bullying: Perspectives, Practice and Insights" published by the Council of Europe in 2017. Was Coordinator/ Teacher/ Trainer in the Advanced Course in Cyberbullying [E-learning] (1st edition - 2017; 2nd edition - 2018; - 3rd edition - 2019; - 4th edition - 2020), promoted by the CRIAP Institute (Portugal). Is a co-organizer and co-host of the Cyberbullying Talks livestreaming show (2019, 2020 and 2021) and co-host and co-organizer of the Global StopCyberbullying Telesummit (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022). Was also a specialist in the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) “Bullying and Cyberbullying: Prevent and Act” (1st edition - 2019; 2nd edition - 2020) promoted by the Directorate-General for Education (DGE), within the scope of the SeguraNet Awareness Center and the Team Education for Health, a consultant to the Directorate-General for Education (DGE) workgroup within the scope of the “School Without Bullying. School Without Violence” plan (2019) and is the Scientific Coordinator of the "Advanced Specialization in Bullying and Cyberbullying - From Prevention to Identification and Intervention", an online training course, promoted by CRIAP Institute (Portugal). Together with Cristiane Miranda, he is co-founder of the project Agarrados à Net (Clinging To The Net) and the program “Faz-te Ouvir! Dá a Volta ao [Cyber]Bullying!” (Make Yourself Heard! Turn [Cyber]Bullying Around!).
Speakers
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
President of the Republic, PortugalMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa was born in Lisbon, on 12 December 1948. He is a Catholic and has 2 children and 5 grandchildren. A Law Graduate, he received a Doctorate in Legal and Political Science in 1984. He was a tenured professor at the Faculty of Law of Lisbon University, and has taught throughout his career in various institutions of further education, in Portugal and abroad. He was a journalist, as editor of the Expresso newspaper between 1980 and 1983, and worked on the Seminário newspaper from 1983 to 1987. Subsequently, he appeared on the media as a political commentator on TSF radio and, later, the TV stations RTP and TVI. He works with various civic institutions and associations, as well as in the social sector, as founder, sponsor, director, or simply as a volunteer. In 1976, he served as a deputy to the Constituent Assembly. He was part of the 8th Constitutional Government as Secretary of State of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and later, as the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs. He has supported the PSD (Social Democratic Party) since it was founded and was its president from 1996 to 1999, contributing decisively to government stability as leader of the opposition. In the international realm, he encouraged the PSD to join the European People's Party, in which he attained the position of Vice-President. He has held various positions in local government, including Municipal Deputy, Metropolitan Deputy, Councillor and President of the Municipal Assemblies of Cascais, Lisbon, and Celorico de Basto. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was elected President of the Republic for the first time on 24 January 2016 and took office on 9 March. He was re-elected for a second term on 24 January 2021 and took office on 9 March of the same year.
Prof. Augusto Santos Silva
President of the Portuguese ParliamentAugusto Santos Silva was born in Porto on August 20, 1956. He is President of the Portuguese Parliament since March 29, 2022. He is married, the father of three children and the grandfather of four grandchildren. He received his PhD in Sociology from ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (1992). He is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. He is the author of several works in the fields of sociology and political thought. He has served in the following governments: XXII Constitutional Government, as Minister of State and Foreign Affairs (2019-2022); XXI Constitutional Government, as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2015-2019); XVIII Constitutional Government, as Minister of National Defense (2009-2011); XVII Constitutional Government, as Minister of Parliamentary Affairs (2005-2009); XIV Constitutional Government, as Secretary of State for Educational Administration (1999-2000), Minister of Education (2000-2001) and Minister of Culture (2001-2002). He was elected for the Portuguese Parliament in the IX and XII legislatures (2002-2005; 2011). He was pro-rector of the University of Porto (1998-1999). He is a member of the Socialist Party.
Francisca Magano
Director of Childhood and Youth Policies, UNICEF PortugalMaster in Psychology of Justice and Deviant Behavior from the Portuguese Catholic University and a postgraduate degree in Urban Studies from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Lisbon’s NOVA University. She has collaborated with various organizations in the fields of human rights, education and international cooperation in Italy, England and several other countries in the sub-Saharan African region. Since 2019, she has been Director of Programs and Public Policies at UNICEF Portugal, dedicated to the defense and promotion of children's rights.
Sónia Seixas
Psychologist, Higher Education Teacher, PortugalBorn in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970, has a degree in Social Anthropology from I.S.C.T.E. and Educational Psychology from I.S.P.A.. Has a PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of Coimbra, with a thesis on bullying behaviors and health. Teaches in higher education since 1998, mainly teaching courses in the context of developmental and learning psychology, currently teaching at the Santarém’s School of Higher Education. Co-Author of the books "Plano Bullying - Como Apagar o Bullying da Escola", "Diz não ao Bullying - Não deixes que te façam mal!" and "Cyberbullying - Um guia para pais e educadores".
Parry Aftab
Founder, StopCyberbullying Global, USA and CanadaParry Aftab is an American digital privacy and security lawyer who operates globally advising industry, governments and policymakers. She was one of the world's first cyberlawyers, before they were called "cyberlawyers." In the early days of the Web she began to focus on digital best practices, cybersafety and cybercrime prevention and policy, following her years as a Wall Street hostile takeover, M&A and international corporate lawyer.
Shajiuddin Faraz Mohammed
Psychiatrist, USA.Dr. Shajiuddin Faraz Mohammed is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Touro COM and works as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist in New York. He is currently working as a Child psychiatrist at St. Vincent’s Hospital at White Plains, New York and also runs a day treatment program at a special school in Westchester county, New York. He is also the President-Elect for West-Hudson Psychiatry Society in New York. Dr. Mohammed obtained his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from NTR University of Health Sciences, India. He obtained his Master's degree in Public Health from Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT and completed a fellowship in Public health through CT/RI public Health Training Center in collaboration with Yale School of Public health. Dr. Mohammed completed his Residency in Adult Psychiatry and a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY.
Dr. Elizabeth Englander
Executive Director, Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, Bridgewater State University, USADr. Elizabeth Englander is the founder and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State University, a Center which delivers programs, resources, and research for the state of Massachusetts and nationwide. She is also a Founding Member of the Social and Emotional Research Consortium (SERC). As a researcher and a professor of Psychology for more than 25 years, she is a nationally recognized expert in the area of bullying and cyberbullying, childhood causes of aggression and abuse, and children’s use of technology. She was named Most Valuable Educator by the Boston Red Sox and in 2018, Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker appointed her to his Juvenile Justice Advisory Council. She is also on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Institute of Child Development and Digital Media. During the global Coronavirus Pandemic, Dr. Englander’s work has focused on helping children and schools promote strong mental health and social relationships in the face of sustained social isolation and rising depression and anxiety in children. She conducted research with children and educators that has helped to shape the nation’s pandemic response. Between 2020 and 2022, she authored and published five books, one for educators (When The Kids Come Back), two for children aged 8-11 years old (The Insanely Awesome Pandemic Playbook: A Humorous Mental Health Guide For Kids and The Insanely Awesome POST Pandemic Playbook), and two for younger children, all of which both feature supplemental guides and activities for teachers and parents. Prior to 2020, Dr. Englander served as the Special Editor for the Cyberbullying issues of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry-CONNECT and the Journal of Social Sciences, and has authored more than a hundred articles in academic journals and books. She is also the author of nine books, including the Insanely Awesome series for children, Understanding Violence (a standard academic text in the field of child development and violent criminal behavior), Bullying and Cyberbullying: A Guide for Educators, published by Harvard Education Press, and 25 Myths About Bullying and Cyberbullying (Wiley press). She has also written a variety of research-based curricula and educational handouts for communities and professionals. Reflecting her interest in educating laypeople, Dr. Englander has answered questions in a column for the New York Times (online edition), and she wrote the column Bullying Bulletin Board, which was syndicated by Gatehouse Media in hundreds of newspapers nationwide.
Christine McComas
Advocate, mother of Grace McComas, Maryland, USA.She and her husband David have 4 daughters, including Grace McComas, for whom Maryland’s Grace’s Law against cyberbullying is named. Grace’s death by suicide on Easter Sunday 2012 became a catalyst for discussion and understanding of how bullying in the digital age is substantially different than ever before and that all of us bear responsibility to mitigate the hatred, incivility and meanness that has become increasingly evident in our social interactions. Remember G.R.A.C.E. = Giving Respect And Compassion to Everyone.
Liliane Sant’Anna
Co-founder and Trainer at Instituto CNV BrasilLiliane Sant'Anna is a specialist in Non-Violent Communication and co-founder of Instituto CNV Brasil, a reference organization in teaching the concept of CNV in Brazil. Graduated in Business Administration from Universidade de Brasília, she also has a postgraduate degree in Positive Psychology and Science of Well-Being, from PUC-RS and Ontological Coach, with two international courses from the ICF-recognized school, Newfiled Network. She has been a trainer and consultant for more than eight years, has more than 10 years of professional practices with human development and has directly participated in the personal and professional development of more than 2000 people. As one of the founders of Instituto CNV Brasil, she has worked with large companies such as Nubank, Grupo Fleury, Ambev, Itaú, Cargill, GreenPeace, among more than 100 companies. Liliane became aware of Non-Violent Communication in 2016 while residing in Melbourne - Australia. She got in touch with Marc Avanzo, a French coach who learned CNV directly from Marshall Rosenberg, who found in CNV the translation of diverse knowledge about human development that she had been deepening since she was 16 years old. Passionate about combining a good life with results and lasting relationships, principles that motivate her daily study, she decided to focus her practice on personal and group transformation. Today, married to her high school sweetheart, together for 18 years, Lili, as she is known by her closest friends, lives in Brasília, is the mother of the charming Athena and little Rudá and considers motherhood the most difficult and glorious project of her life.
Cristiane Chaves Reis
Cofundadora e Treinadora do Instituto CNV BrasilLawyer, Public Policy Analyst working at the Public Defender's Office of the Federal District and PhD student in Business Law at the University of Coimbra. She acted as Mediator and Instructor of Workshops for Parents and Children at the Federal District Court of Justice, where she supported people in judicial and extrajudicial processes involving family conflicts. He completed the LLM in Business Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in 2016 and, in 2021, the Postgraduate Degree in Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies, with an emphasis on Emotional Balance, promoted by Instituto Paz & Mente and FAVI, in partnership with the Chair UNESCO for Peace Studies, Innsbruck, and Santa Barbara Institute, in California/USA. We wish this month's events to be a success, supporting more and more people!
Luke Archer
Author and founder of Verbal Aikido, FranceLuke Archer is an Irish writer and teacher, specializing in communication and pedagogical development, living in Lyon since 1995. In his youth he was regularly faced with physical and verbal bullying. He founded Verbal Aikido in 2009 and since then has worked mainly with the medical, social and educational sectors to help adults and children develop reflexes to better manage verbal aggression and regain autonomous well-being.
Helena Águeda Marujo
Psychologist, Higher Education Teacher, PortugalHelena Águeda Marujo has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Lisbon. She is a professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas at the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the UNESCO Chair in Education for Sustainable Global Peace, the Human Resources Management and Psychology units and the postgraduate courses in Applied Positive Psychology and in Education. for Sustainable Global Peace, as well as the ISCSP-Wellbeing mission unit. She is a researcher at the Center for Public Administration and Policies, member of the advisory board of the International Positive Psychology Association, president of the Portuguese Association for Studies and Intervention in Positive Psychology, associate of the Taos Institute and member of the Taos Institute Latin America Council.
António Reca de Sousa
Founder, Interviver – Association for the Promotion of Health, Welbeing and Peace, PortugalPresident of the Federation of Parent Associations of Cascais Municipality (2003-2013). Founder of the association Interviver – Association for the Promotion of Health, Welbeing and Peace. In partnership with the UNESCO Chair of Education for Sustainable Global Peace, they promote teacher training courses in Positive Education. Facilitator and volunteer coordinator of the Prem Rawat Foundation's Peace Education Program.
Karen Scavacini
CEO, Vita Alere Institute for Suicide Prevention and Postvention, BrazilPsychologist; CEO of the Vita Alere Institute for Suicide Prevention and Postvention; PhD in School Psychology and Human Development from USP and Master in Public Health from Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). Representative of the IASP (International Association for Suicide Prevention) in Brazil; Scientific Director of ABEPS (Brazilian Association of Studies and Suicide Prevention); Author of books, chapters and coordinator of postgraduate courses, campaigns and courses in the area. Creator of the Mental Health Map and the Foundations for Digital Wellbeing course for Health Professionals.
Cristiane Miranda
Founder, Teen On Top - Coaching for Youth, PortugalAfter 20 years in the business world, in 2016 she embarked on different areas, which brought her a vision of working directly with people, which led her to find her life purpose and do what fulfills her: helping others through coaching. As a result she created a specific program, Teen On Top - Coaching for Young People, where she helps young people to reach their true potential, giving support to parents in their task of educating their children. It should be noted that she has over 20 years of experience volunteering with children and young people. She also created the Teen On Top-School Edition, a program for schools, where she helps students to define their goals and through which she also works on their self-esteem and self-confidence. In 2021, together with Tito de Morais, she created the project “Agarrados à Net – Como Gerir o Tempo Online dos Teus Filhos” (Clinging To The Net - How to Manage Your Children’s Online Time), whose mission is to help parents and educators better manage the time their children spend behind a screen, as well as help the kids to better manage their time online by themselves, in a practical, simple and relaxed way. Among other programs, they developed the “217 Challenge - 7 Steps to Positive Digital Parenting”, the “What Kind of Digital Parents Are We” and the program “Faz-te Ouvir! Dá a Volta ao [Cyber]Bullying!” (Make Yourself Heard! Turn [Cyber]Bullying Around!).
Tito de Morais
The Internet Safety Guy, PortugalWas an external evaluator of “Cyber Training – Taking Action Against Cyberbullying”, a project that produced a train-the-trainer manual on cyberbullying. Is a co-author of the book "Cyberbullying - A guide for parents and educators" (Portugal, 2016) and of a chapter of the book "Bullying: Perspectives, Practice and Insights" published by the Council of Europe in 2017. Was Coordinator/ Teacher/ Trainer in the Advanced Course in Cyberbullying [E-learning] (1st edition - 2017; 2nd edition - 2018; - 3rd edition - 2019; - 4th edition - 2020), promoted by the CRIAP Institute (Portugal). Is a co-organizer and co-host of the Cyberbullying Talks livestreaming show (2019, 2020 and 2021) and co-host and co-organizer of the Global StopCyberbullying Telesummit (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022). Was also a specialist in the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) “Bullying and Cyberbullying: Prevent and Act” (1st edition - 2019; 2nd edition - 2020) promoted by the Directorate-General for Education (DGE), within the scope of the SeguraNet Awareness Center and the Team Education for Health, a consultant to the Directorate-General for Education (DGE) workgroup within the scope of the “School Without Bullying. School Without Violence” plan (2019) and is the Scientific Coordinator of the "Advanced Specialization in Bullying and Cyberbullying - From Prevention to Identification and Intervention", an online training course, promoted by CRIAP Institute (Portugal). Together with Cristiane Miranda, he is co-founder of the project Agarrados à Net (Clinging To The Net) and the program “Faz-te Ouvir! Dá a Volta ao [Cyber]Bullying!” (Make Yourself Heard! Turn [Cyber]Bullying Around!).
Catarina Marques
Journalist, SIC Special ReportIn the kitchen of my grandmother Felicidade's house, with its century-old walls and the door always open to the street, when the family gathered around the wide table and the adults' conversations continued into the night, on the back of the fire, I liked to stay in the listening. And to ask. When I grew up and my questions began to risk the edge of inconvenience, I became a journalist. And with that stamp, I won a passport to legitimize all questions and to enter all the houses, from those that lack a floor to those that have gilded ceilings. Curiosity has always been my engine. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, I joined SIC moved by the admiration and respect that journalism and television represent for me. In the Thematic Channels where I stayed for some time, I worked in the coordination of informative spaces, magazines and debates, but it was always journalism that I surrendered to. Reporting was and continues to be the work that fascinates me the most and this has been the path I have been pioneering. In the SIC Special Report team, of which I am part, I cross backyards and worlds with a microphone in hand, in search of lives and stories that are worth voice and image. I dedicate myself mainly to topics in the social, health and education areas, and I put to the test the dose of fascination and responsibility that journalism leaves in my lap every day.
Paulo Sargento
Commissioner of the “Mais Escola; Melhor Familia” by CCM and CMTVHe is Director and Principal Coordinating Professor at Escola Superior de Saúde Ribeiro Sanches, Instituto Politécnico da Lusófona, Grupo Lusófona, a group where he is also Associate Professor (Universidade Lusófona) and clinical consultant for two institutions in the health area (Clínica S. João de Deus and Clínica S. José de Camarate). He holds a degree in Clinical Psychology, a postgraduate degree in Developmental Psychology, a DEA in Forensic Psychology and Psychobiology and a Doctorate (PhD) in Clinical Neuropsychology. He develops his research in two units (COPELABS – until 2018; NICiTeS, since 2015, and CEAD, since 2021). He is a member of the editorial staff and reviewer for several scientific journals. Belonging to several scientific associations, he has published mainly in the area of Psychology (recently, with special emphasis on sleep studies), Justice and Education, but also in scientific dissemination. He is a commentator for CMTV for the areas of Justice and Security.
Maria Oliveira Tamellini
Co-founder and COO, GamerSafer, USAMaria Tamellini is a second-time founder, gamer, mother, passionate about everything that involves the tech for good world. She is co-founder and COO of GamerSafer, a software company that works with the gaming ecosystem to fight crime, fraud and toxicity. Maria is a Latitud Fellow, alumnus of the Skydeck program at UC Berkeley and was awarded internationally by Headstream Innovation in the category “Rebuilding Digital Spaces”. She is an advisor to Common Sense Media and TheGame Hers, was co-chair of the XR Safety Initiative (XRSI) Child Safety Initiative, a board member of Latinas in Tech, and serves as a mentor for Women in Games and B2Mamy. Maria has led a social impact company certified by Sistema B Corp in Brazil for many years, has an international certification in social business from ESPM and an MBA in Sustainability Management from FGV.
Confidence Osein
Founder, Internet Safe Kids AfricaConfidence Osein is a Digital Citizenship and Cyber Safety Educator with extensive experience in digital education- Edtech integration in classrooms, online safety, digital wellness, social and emotional learning (SEL).She is the founder of Internet Safe Kids Africa a not for profit organisation that helps the digitally connected child stay safe online,use media/technology responsibly and navigate their digital world safely. Confidence is a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert( MIEExpert), Common Sense Educator, Member, Internet Society (ISOC),The Duke Of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA)Bronze winner just to mention a few. Her work and impact in helping young people amplify their voices for good using tech has also gained her recognition by DigCit Institute USA as an approved DigCit Global Impactor
Matthieu Boutard
Executive Director, Bodyguard, FranceMatthieu joined Bodyguard as Managing Director to make a difference. He is a passionate social entrepreneur excited about the opportunities technology and the Internet open up but concerned at the same time about the rise of cyberbullying, hate and extremism online. Sensitive to social impacts, he started his career by founding two social organizations. Then he spent years in leading tech companies such as Groupon and Google and worked with one of the most inspiring philanthropic team, Google.org.
Aloma Ribeiro Felizardo
Teacher and author, BrazilPedagogue, PhD student in Social Psychology at Kennedy University and Master's student in Conflict Resolution Systems at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Lomas de Zamora in Argentina. She studied Theory and Tools of Negotiation at the Harvard Faculty Club (Massachusetts, USA); she is a consultant, writer with six published works, national and international speaker on bullying, cyberbullying, restorative practice. Author of the Respectful Dialogue Circle (CDR) pedagogical tool.
Cyntia Russano Silva
Teacher and author, BrazilTeacher of Early Childhood Education and Elementary School I in the public network of São Paulo for 28 years, Bachelor in Social Communication with qualification in Public Relations, Postgraduate in School Administration with emphasis on bullying at school (Faculdade Campos Sales) and postgraduate in Bullying , Violence, Prejudice and Discrimination at School (UNIFESP). Currently, she does training and awareness work with lectures in schools for students, school staff and families. She has a Facebook group where she shares information about bullying and where many people interact by sharing their experiences.
Lucia Helena Diniz Santiago
Pedagogue, Specialist in Clinical Psychopedagogy, web activist, author, BrazilPedagogue specializing in Clinical Psychopedagogy; for 11 years he worked in the educational area and psychopedagogical care; for 10 years in companies. She is the mother of a teenager who suffered bullying, racial slurs and cyberbullying in the schools she attended. She became an activist, she wrote a book to warn parents, as well as society as a whole, about the seriousness of this violence. She also created a Facebook group 5 years ago, Bullying-Uma Vida Importa?, to inform, alert and share knowledge with society on these topics.
Bruno Avelar Rosa
Partner / ProfessorBruno Avelar Rosa is a Partner at Qantara Sports and Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education at the University of Coimbra. He is the European Commission's external expert in the field of sport. He has developed diverse academic and technical activities in the field of ethics and the protection of children in sport, with particular emphasis on participating in the design of the Portuguese and Bulgarian Roadmaps for the effective protection of children in sports policies, promoted by the Council of Europe in partnership with national sports authorities. He is a certified Karate and Judo coach.
Miguel Nery
Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Professor, European UniversityHis areas of interest are clinical and developmental psychology, psychopathology, psychosomatics, bullying, gambling and sport. PhD in Human Motricity, he is the author of Bullying in Youth Sports Training: New perspectives and practical strategies (with Carlos Neto, António Rosado and Peter K. Smith. Routledge, 2020). In recent years he has been working on funded action research projects (European Union and Government of Portugal). He is an Assistant Professor at the European University, where he works as Research Director and Coordinator of the PhD in Psychology. He is a member of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Psychology, the Order of Portuguese Psychologists, the Portuguese Society of Sport Psychology and the Portuguese Society of Psychosomatics. He develops his clinical activity at Self – Psicologia e Psicoterapia.
Taiza Ramos Ferreira
PhD in Public HealthPhD in Public Health with emphasis on violence and health from the Fernandes Figueira Institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation-FIOCRUZ, Master in Public Health, Specialist in Law and Health and Social Worker. She is currently a substitute professor of the Social Work course at the Federal University of Paraná. She has experience as a social worker working in social programs and projects to fight rights violations. Researcher on the topic of violence, with emphasis on digital violence. She has been researching the topic of Cyberbullying since 2016. She is a member of the research group Connection without violence children and adolescents on the internet coordinated by Dr Suely Ferreira Deslandes from IFF / FIOCRUZ.
Ricardo Quaresma
Soccer playerFather, humanist and soccer player. Born in Lisbon on September 26, 1983 Winner of an Intercontinental Cup and European Champion for Portugal, Winner of a Champions League, 4 Portuguese Leagues, 3 Cândido de Oliveira Super Cups, a Portugal Cup, an FA Cup, 2 Italian Leagues, a Coppa Italia, 2 Turkish Leagues and a Turkish Cup.
Alex Holmes
CEO, Diana Awards, UKAlex is Deputy CEO at non-profit The Diana Award, which is a legacy to Princess Diana’s belief that young people have the power to change the world. He is founder of peer-to-peer support programme Anti-Bullying Ambassadors, a network of trained young people dedicated to preventing peer on peer violence and all types of bullying particularly in schools. This is a programme Alex founded when aged 16, after experiencing bullying himself and witnessing the impact this can have on young minds and their mental health. The programme has trained over 45,000 young people across UK, Ireland, Greece, Miami (United States) empowering young people to keep themselves and their peers safe and happy, in 5,000 schools. Alex also sits on the global safety advisory boards of several of the major social media and tech companies advising them on their approach to safety and online harms. He’s a regular expert on ITV This Morning, CBBC Newsround and a trusted government advisor. Alex was named on the Independent on Sunday's Happy List as one of the ‘100 people who make Britain a happier place to live’ and has a keen interest on barriers to children’s happiness and wellbeing.
Cecilia Stajano
Gestora da Comunidade de Bem-Estar, Mondo Digitale, ItáliaCecilia has been promoting innovation in Italian schools for the last 18 years. She coordinates more than 100 schools that have joined the National Network of Innovation Gyms and is national contact person for the digital literacy project for the over-60s with the Grandparents on the Internet model, based on intergenerational learning. She has been a certified facilitator of the Lego® Serious Play® Method since 2014 and of the MTa Learning methodology since 2017.
Martin Drechsler
Managing Director, FSM, GermanyMartin Drechsler is the Managing Director of the FSM (Association for Voluntary self-Regulation of Digital Media Service Providers). Martin has been working in the field of online child safety for 14 years. Since joining the FSM, he has been responsible for legal and technical aspects of online child protection, advising FSM members on the classification of web content, the design of parental controls and child safety, including cyberbullying. The FSM is a self-regulatory organization concerned with online child safety. Together with our member companies we are working on making digital media and online services more family friendly as well as better and safer for young people. To prevent cyberbullying, we advise our members on the design of reporting tools and on resources that help users understand this issue and find appropriate answers. In our educational work, we provide materials for teachers and parents to support them when they have to tackle cyberbullying in classrooms or at home – and we give guidance for prevention.
Almudena Lara
Head of Child Safety Public Policy, Google, UKAlmudena is the global lead on child safety public policy at Google, where she leads work on protecting children from child sexual abuse and exploitation and providing safe experiences to children across products. She joined Google from the NSPCC, the UK’s largest child protection charity, where she led the public policy team and championed key legal reform to ensure better protections for children. Almudena is a Board member at the Tech Coalition, a cross industry collaboration to drive critical advances in technology and adoption of best practices for keeping children safe online, and chairs the INHOPE Network advisory board to support advancements in awareness and reporting of child sexual abuse material.
Agenda
This program is subject to change. All dates and times indicated refer to Mainland Portugal. All sessions take place from 09:30pm to 11pm. Check the time in your location or time zone here. The sessions in English will take place with simultaneous translation. essions in Portuguese will not have translation. Last Update: 29/09/2022
Opening Session:
- Message from His Excellency President of the Republic, Professor Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
- Message from His Excellency President of the Portuguese Parliament, Professor Augusto Santos Silva
Conference:
Title: Children’s rights and cyberbullying
Summary: All children have the right to live in safety. However, not everyone is safe in the places they go – at home, at school or in the neighborhood – and in particular, on the internet.
Violence can manifest itself in many ways and cyberbullying is one of them.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes the right of all children to be protected against all forms of violence, at all times and in all contexts, and the State is responsible for developing social policies and programs to prevent abuse and to guarantee the protection of victims. Not guaranteeing children this right, in addition to having a social and economic cost, with an impact on families and societies as a whole, jeopardizes the well-being and full development of children.
In 2015, reaffirming the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, world leaders committed to eliminating all forms of violence against children by 2030. In this decade for action, between 2021 and 2030, it is urgent to accelerate efforts to put an end to the violence that daily compromises the development and protection of children.
In this session, the latest studies and recommendations from the United Nations and a set of measures that should be adopted to protect children will be discussed.
Speaker: Francisca Magano (Portugal)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda, Sónia Seixas and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Understanding Cyberbullycide From a Clinical Perspective
Summary: The mental health aspects of bullycide are significant. With offline humiliation, bullying and physical aggression, there are typically more physical signs of bruises, cowering and avoidance in hostile environments, self-isolation and witnesses. When the bullying occurs in the virtual environment, it is easier for targets to conceal their pain. Parents and caregivers are often in the dark. This is why medical and mental health professionals play a crucial role in digital abuse prevention, identification, emergency response and recovery. They play a critical role in raising awareness, education and providing targets with a trusted and trustworthy place to land. Dr. Shajiuddin Faraz Mohammed is a US child psychiatrist and father. He heads The Cybersafety Group’s Cyberwellness Division and works with Parry Aftab on creating awareness and professional training for cyberbullying stakeholders. Join them and StopCyberbullying Portugal’s representative, Tito de Morais, in discussing clinical perspectives.
Speaker: Dr. Shajiuddin Faraz Mohammed
Hosts: Parry Aftab (EUA & Canadá) and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Note: Session in English with simultaneous translation to Portuguese
Título: Addressing Bullying, Cyberbullying, and SEL, in 2023 and Beyond
Summary: Working to improve children’s social and emotional learning, and their peer relationships, faces new and significant challenges in 2023 and beyond. The global Coronavirus Pandemic exacerbated many of the psychological and lifestyle changes that had threatened children’s mental and social health even prior to 2020. Most notably, issues such as screen time, anxiety, depression, bullying and cyberbullying posed threats to children before the Pandemic and have since become even greater concerns in the face of sustained social isolation and loss of healthy socializing with peers. This presentation will review updated research on how children are coping and how their social relationships are currently presenting. Concrete strategies used by the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center in schools worldwide will be discussed.
Speaker: Dr. Elizabeth Englander (EUA)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Note: Session in English with simultaneous translation to Portuguese
Título: Social Media & Bullied Suicide; The Path to Maryland’s Grace’s Law
Summary: Mother Christine McComas shares a personal look at the life of Grace McComas, a beautiful child born joyful, who became an active, bright and communicative teen but was shockingly lost to suicide related to Cyberbullying at age 15. Grace was abused by malicious, threatening and dehumanizing cyber abuse. Screen-shot proof was shared with schools, police and courts as for months they sought help that never came. Grace’s anguished family immediately shared her struggle and their inability to save her and worked towards the unanimous passage of Grace’s Law (Maryland, U.S.A.) which protects children from cyber abuse and holds responsible those who would hurt them. Grace’s mother Christine advocates for continued social change (via Grace McComas Memorial on FB) by urging all to “Remember G.R.A.C.E., by Giving Respect And Compassion to Everyone”, which she believes is the path to peace and increased respect for human dignity.
Speaker: Christine McComas (EUA)
Hosts: Parry Aftab (EUA & Canadá) and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Note: Session in English with simultaneous translation to Portuguese
Title: Judgments and Criticisms from the Perspective of Nonviolent Communication
Summary: In this session we are going to talk about the powerful message that judgments carry. It is also Nonviolent Communication to listen to the requests that are hidden in tragic behavior. In this meeting we will talk about how to open conversations that transform behaviors.
Speaker: Liliane Lima Sant’Anna (Brasil) and Cristiane Chaves Reis
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Verbal Aikido: From Conflict to Conversation
Summary: The session will begin with an overview of the Verbal Aikido practice – the fundamental aspects and how practitioners train and develop empowering reflexes. The guests will then be invited to take part in a simple exercise to start to use Verbal Aikido posture and feel the effects of practice. Finally, the participantes can ask questions and even verbally attack the VA presenter so as to demonstrate the practice further.
Speaker: Luke Archer (EUA e França)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Note: Session in English with simultaneous translation to Portuguese
Title: Positive Education – From Science to the Experience of Well-Being and Peace
Resumo: From the individualistic conception of the human to a radical relational understanding: the focus on positive peace and public happiness. The current economic, political, technological and social models and paradigms make explicit, and reinforce, forms of collective life and social discourses that create conditions for a disconnected society, of authoritarian and violent dominance of powers, of injustices and inequalities, of finite resources wear and tear and inconsequential disregard for the most human and non-human. Only radical relational understanding and action saves us. Celebrating and honoring the Other and the collective goes through new collaborative and dialogic spaces and new existential positions, which refuse narratives of separation, sowers of injustice, exclusion, aggression and destruction of collective goods. We need to rescue forms of action that restore the ability to see at length, to feel, to empathize, and to take co-responsibility for building the world in which we dream of living. These visions are opposed to the proposals of a monologic and myopic world, since they are based on shared inquiry, coordinated action, participation of all in a living together that deepens and takes care of relationships and the common good, and makes scenarios that facilitate social transformation. These actions include compassion, forgiveness, empathy, gentle cooperation, curiosity, servant leadership, astonishment for the Other… in the magic of a co-presence that allows a co-making of the world. Relational goods – dignified and non-instrumental relationships – are a way of building new realities, in which positive peace – and the social structures that maintain and make it viable – allow us to position ourselves towards a happiness that, much more than than individual, it is collective and citizen.
Speaker: Prof. Drª. Helena Águeda Marujo (Portugal)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Is Peace a Luxury or a Necessity? Introduction to the Peace Education Program
Resumo:In the race in which humanity is launched, that of exponential growth, the limits of sustainability have long been reached. The greed placed on material conquests pushes peace to the bottom of the list of priorities, as if peace were a luxury. Is it really so? Peace, like water, food and breathing, is a fundamental need. The Peace Education Program prompts further reflection on this topic and inspires the experience of peace from our inner resources, based on our strengths, not weaknesses. In the presentation of the program, short videos will be shown, in relation to which the participants will be able to express their reflections.
Speaker: António Reca de Sousa (Portugal)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Cyberbullying and suicide prevention
Summary: What is the relationship between cyberbullying and suicide? What other forms of online violence might trigger this issue? How can parents, schools and health professionals act and what materials should be made available or developed to increase public awareness, reduce risks and prevent violence and cyberbullying? These are some of the reflections I will bring, inviting everyone to assume our roles to reduce this violence.
Speaker: Karen Scavacini (Brasil)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Bullying and Cyberbullying in Schools – A Solution
Summary: When we talk about bullying and cyberbullying, the school appears as one of the main means where it develops, which is justified by being a place where children and young people spend most of their time.
Speakers: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: More school, better family: for a culture of peace, against school violence!
Summary: Data from the latest UNICEF report (2018) – An Everyday Lesson #ENDviolence in Schools – A Daily Lesson to End Violence in Schools – suggests an unsettling picture: “half of the world’s students aged between 13 and 15-year-olds – around 150 million young people – report experiencing peer violence at or near school”. The cost of this violence is estimated at 7 trillion dollars. The CM and CMTV, in their fundamental mission of informing and providing public service, especially with regard to the broadest and most profound dimensions of national public life, propose to develop an action plan in order to bring to the public sphere another fundamental question: to know the reality of school violence in our country, committing the family and the school to a culture of peace that empowers citizenship!
Speaker: Paulo Sargento (Portugal)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Deconstructing Hate: A Case Study with Minecraft Servers
Summary: This session will present a case study that analyzed over 1.5 million messages exchanged across three third-party Minecraft servers with thousands of players to identify how extremism and harassment happen and are addressed. It will also bring up the challenges and opportunities for improvement identified from the study.
Speaker: Maria Oliveira Tamellini (Portugal)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Kindness The New Cool: Promoting A Supportive Approach To End Online Bullying Among Young People
Summary: The session begins by noting what cyberbullying is, with empahsis on the importance of recognising feelings and how as adults we can create opporturities for young people to connect with one another to identify emotions and the perspective of others thereby allowing them show compassion, communicate and solve their problems in a more peaceful way so as to get along with others hence reducing instances of online bullying.
Speaker: Confidence Osein (Nigeria)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Note: Session in English with simultaneous translation to Portuguese
Title:Cyberbullyng Prevention & Tackling Technologies
Summary: During this live, we’ll be talking with the Executive Director of a company that developed a moderation solution that uses artificial intelligence to help protect individuals, families and businesses against online toxic content.
Speaker: Matthieu Boutard
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Note: Session in English with simultaneous translation to Portuguese
Title: Bullying and Cyberbullying: Books from Brazil
Summary: In this session, we will be talking to three Brazilian authors who have written books about their research in the field of bullying and cyberbullying and about their personal experiences as mothers of young people who were victims of bullying or cyberbullying.
Speakers: Aloma Felizardo, Cyntia Russano and Lucia Helena Santiago (Brasil)
Hosts: Sónia Seixas and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Sexting, Videos & Internet
Summary: In the session we will explore topics such as consent, sexting, non-consensual intimate images, non-consensual pornography, revenge porn, sextortion, image-based sexual violence, its relationship with bullying and cyberbullying, as well as legislation in Portugal, social media, aggressors’ motives and motives to sharing, how aggressors have access to materials, consequences for victims and solutions.
Speakers: Inês B. Marinho, Maria João Faustino and Mariana Fernandes (Portugal)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Bullying & Cyberbullying: Violence and Abuse in Sport and European Policies
Summary: In this session we will talk about interpersonal violence in sport, namely in the field of bullying and other forms of abuse. Interpersonal violence in sport, particularly in the field of bullying and other forms of abuse, is worrying, and has been the focus of attention by the scientific community and various sports bodies. The scientific literature on bullying, in this particular context, has been increasing, especially over the last decade. The contributions of researchers have made it possible to develop more effective forms of prevention and intervention. However, there are other forms of violence and abuse that must also be taken into account in the development of sport policies and prevention and intervention programmes. In this sense, in addition to promoting reflection on violence and abuse in sport, in particular bullying, we will also talk about European safeguarding policies in sport. Since the integration of sport as a European matter in 2007, various policies have been developed at different levels with a view to preventing and protecting children in the specific context of sport. In this sense, the presentation to be carried out focuses on the characterization and respective process of implementation of these policies.
Speakers: Bruno Avelar Rosa and Miguel Nery (Portugal)
Hosts: Sónia Seixas and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Cyberbullying among adolescents: impacts on health, prevention possibilities and other digital violence
Summary: In this session, we will present a little of our trajectory of studies on the topic of cyberbullying and other digital violence, some of the main results of the works developed during the master’s and doctoral period, such as: the magnitude of the phenomenon, the impacts on health, the experiences of adolescents of the second year of high school in two Brazilian capitals and possibilities of prevention.
Speaker: Taiza Ramos Ferreira (Brasil)
Hosts: Sónia Seixas and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Bullying and cyberbullying in sport and beyond
Summary: Ricardo Quaresma shares with us his experience with bullying and cyberbullying, both in sport and in his personal life, how it affects him, how he deals with these situations.
Speaker: Ricardo Quaresma (Portugal)
Hosts: Cristiane Miranda and Tito de Morais (Portugal)
Title: Combating cyberbullying – exploring what works
Summary: This roundtable will close the IV Global StopCyberbullying Telesummit, organised by Cyberbullying.pt and will bring together European experts in the fight against cyberbullying to explore the causes behind cyberbullying, trends, what can be done to prevent it and what we know about what works in tackling this problem at European level. We will hear from experts in Italy, Germany and the UK about effective programmes and interventions and what we can all learn about our role in combating this type of abuse and ensuring children can grow in safer environments without fear of abuse.
Speakers: Alex Holmes, Cecilia Stajano e Martin Drechsler
Hosts: Almudena Lara e Tito de Morais
Closing Statements: Cristiane Miranda, Sónia Seixas e Tito de Morais
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