{"id":6525,"date":"2025-11-14T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6525"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:41:18","slug":"kostis-papaioannou","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/authors\/kostis-papaioannou\/","title":{"rendered":"Kostis Papaioannou"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6525\" class=\"elementor elementor-6525 elementor-5955\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e30efd2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e30efd2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71da41c\" data-id=\"71da41c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dedb5c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dedb5c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>President of Technopolis City of Athens and former Secretary General for Human Rights Kostis Papaioannou has spent years researching and raising awareness about the surge of racist violence and nationalist extremism across Greece and other Western countries, exploring ways in which democracies can defend themselves against the emergence of post-fascism, a new strain of far-right radicalism that repackages and normalizes old-school fascism for a contemporary audience. He is the director of \u201cSimeio\u201d, a grassroots collective dedicated to research and action against the rise of the new far right, and a member of Golden Dawn Watch, an initiative to monitor the trial against the Greek far-right organization, Golden Dawn. He has also published two books that serve as eye-opening chronicles of the rise of the new far right in Europe:\u00a0<\/span><em>Wild Tale for Grown Kids \u2013 From Fascism to Post-Fascism. Democracy Against the New Far Right<\/em><span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><em>The \u2018Clean Hands\u2019 of Golden Dawn: Applications of Nazi Purity.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span>He has studied History, with a Master\u2019s degree in Political Science, and teaches at the Lyc\u00e9e Franco-Hell\u00e9nique Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix. He has also worked in the fields of adult and cross-cultural education, leading professional development workshops for teachers with a focus on human rights, social equity and anti-racism. He was co-founder and co-ordinator of the Racist Violence Recording Network and has served as President of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR) and Director of the Greek section of Amnesty International.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Technopolis City of Athens and former Secretary General for Human Rights Kostis Papaioannou has spent years researching and raising awareness about the surge of racist violence and nationalist extremism across Greece and other Western countries, exploring ways in which democracies can defend themselves against the emergence of post-fascism, a new strain of far-right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6474,"menu_order":120,"template":"","team_category":[88,73],"class_list":["post-6525","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_category-author"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6529,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/6525\/revisions\/6529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ailf.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_category?post=6525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}