Recently, tensions between the Romany and non-Romany segments of society have been rising, in
many cases taking on a certain form of antiziganism. For various professionals it means having
to deal with problems such as how to devise and implement suitable methods leading to the mitigation
of such tensions and various forms of antiziganism. Teachers constitute one of the major
professions that possesses this ability. The hypothesis that we try to prove through our research
in the area of inter-ethnic tensions is that communication between teachers and pupils as well
as their families can help improve relations between the non-Romany and Romany segments of
a multicultural society, thus helping both the Roma and non-Roma fi ght antiziganism