This document provides an overview of a webinar exploring PROMOTION tactics for building human rights cultures and institutions. It discusses constituency-building tactics like using text messaging to engage youth in Netherlands, collaboration tactics like building a coalition of Peruvian human rights organizations, capacity-building tactics such as training organizations to use video advocacy, and awareness raising tactics like environmental mapping in Lebanon. The webinar is presented by the Center for Victims of Torture's New Tactics in Human Rights project.
Tavaana/New Tactics Webinar 4: Building Human Rights Cultures and Institutions (English)
1. A Project of 649 Dayton Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104 USA T:+1.612.436.4800 Email: newtactics@cvt.org Websites: http://www.cvt.org http://www.newtactics.org Exploring PROMOTION Tactics Building human rights cultures and institutions provided by Nancy L. Pearson, M.S.W., L.I.S.W. New Tactics in Human Rights Project Manager The Center for Victims of Torture A Tavaana Webinar
24. Policy & Law Health & Service Institutions Institutions Judicial Institutions Civil Society Organizations Local, National & International Government Institutions
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In other words - Planning without action is futile. Action without planning can be fatal.
Additional resource: Gene Sharp’s – 198 Methods from his book, From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/FDTD.pdf (English) http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationse256.html (Farsi) NOTE: the 198 Methods Of Nonviolent Action appears on page 79
It is important to keep your BIG vision in mind as you think about the strategic decisions that needs to be made; that includes what TARGET you’ve identified to move you forward and what tactics will help you move your TARGET toward a short, medium or long term goal.
This area of restorative tactics may be especially important to have a LONG TERM VISION – it may be decades or generations before people are held accountable for abuses that have taken place. Preparing for this eventuality can be critical for obtaining acknowledgement, justice or even compensation.
HIGHLIGHT – Resource from Gene Sharp at the Albert Einstein Institution 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
NOTE: There are 28 tactic examples in the PROMOTION section of the New Tactics book – we will be exploring together only FOUR tactics - ONE from each of these four categories.
iEarn - Tactics teach participants and observers how to engage in the world. Fighting Sexual Exploitation: Different tactics are effective against different targets.