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4.1.3.2 Regular and Organized Monitoring
Based on the information obtained from the interviews concerning the groups’ and organizations’ tracking of incidents of discrimination, organized monitoring activities can be categorized into four general types:
• informal local monitoring and public intervention campaigns (led by grassroots anti-Fascist groups)
• community-based monitoring (specifically concerning acts of anti-Semitism and hatred towards the Roma)
• community-oriented research/victimization surveys (led by major LGBT organizations)
• comprehensive nation-wide hate crime monitoring (led by the principal anti-Fascist/anti-racist NGO).
While a wide range of factors determines the way in which these activities manifest within an organization or group, the more common factors can be summarized by the following:
• the group’s/organization’s specific needs or scope of work
• their time and financial resources
• their network of activists/volunteers involved in the activity
• their skills and experience.
It should be stressed that in some of the examples, monitoring is not the major objective or specialization of the organizations, but rather results from the immediate need for intervention in incidents of discrimination or when there is a heightened state of aggression towards a community. Therefore, the organized monitoring of hate crimes can, at least in some cases, be understood as the unintended consequence of interventions that try to counter the spread of racist or xenophobic violence (such as grassroots anti-Nazi groups) and that assist the victims of these hate crimes. Nevertheless, these examples can be considered organized forms of monitoring insofar as they require large scale mobilization of groups within a community, skills and resources—all of which are intended to have an impact on the public. The four types of organized monitoring campaigns are discussed below in the form of seven short case studies. Each of them represents a distinct approach shaped by the conditions mentioned above.
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