Tactical Dialogues

Got a question? Got an idea? Need some advice? Want to connect with other people doing human rights work? The New Tactics dialogues area is a collection of featured dialogues and community member blogs, and is the right place for all of those things. Join an ongoing discussion. Start a new one. Agree. Disagree. This is a forum that will help you discover and shape ideas for your work.

Featured dialogues are hosted monthly and focus on a particular tactic or issue-area. These dialogues are led by featured resource practitioners with experience to share. Add updates to past dialogues. Share experiences and ask questions in current dialogues. Save the dates of future dialogues.

Also, take a look at Philippe Duhamel's blog on Liberation through collective strategizing and innovative tactics - interTactica! (en francais)

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Tactical Online Dialogues
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Geo-mapping for human rights

"Geo-mapping for Human Rights" focuses on the role of spatial mapping tools in working to further human rights goals. This online dialogue is a space for practitioners to discuss this new tool to use towards advocacy, promoting transparency around human rights issues, tracking the impact of human rights efforts, and engaging the community in local issues.

 116 28 Oct 2009 - 3 Nov 2009
Art spaces hosting activism & strengthening community engagement

The on-line dialogue featured freeDimensional network members sharing the creative ways in which art spaces can and do provide safe havens for activists, share technical tools and training, support and guidance, and engage in social justice issues in their communities and through fD’s social justice network.

 140 23 Sep 2009 - 29 Sep 2009
Using Shadow Reports for Advocacy Shadow reports (often called 'alternative reports') are submitted to treaty monitoring bodies at the United Nations and other international institutions as an alternative to a government's official report regarding the human rights situation in its respective country. This online dialogue will be a space for practitioners and scholars to share experiences, challenges, successes, resources and tool for the effective use of shadow reports to expose the reality of the human rights situation in their countries. 109 26 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009
Information Activism: Turning Information into Action

This on-line dialogue is a space for practitioners to share the innovative ways in which they have turned information into action with their advocacy campaigns.

 124 8 Jul 2009 - 14 Jul 2009
Engaging Pro-Bono Lawyers

A major obstacle for victims of human rights abuses is gaining access to legal representation in order to file a complaint against the perpetrator. This online dialogue will be space for practitioners to share successful tactics for engaging pro-bono, or free, legal services through access to a variety of professional resources.

 115 27 May 2009 - 2 Jun 2009
Building Human Rights Cities

Human Rights cities can have many benefits such as engaging in such actions as election monitoring, theater and human rights prizes. This dialogue shares how local civil society leaders, members of PDHRE network, facilitate the learning about human rights as a way of life for communities to generate innovative and exciting actions towards social and economic transformation.

 132 22 Apr 2009 - 28 Apr 2009
Healing of Memories: Overcoming the Wounds of History

The Institute for the Healing of Memories (IHOM) is a response to the emotional, psychological and spiritual wounds that are inflicted on nations, communities and individuals by wars, repressive regimes, human rights abuses and other traumatic events or circumstances. IHOM has developed interactive workshops that emphasize the emotional and spiritual, rather than intellectual, understanding and interpretation of the past. These processes prepare the ground for forgiveness and reconciliation between people of diverse backgrounds, races, cultures and religions. This dialogue is an opportunity to learn more about healing memories, and to share your experiences, challenges, and successes.

 143 25 Mar 2009 - 31 Mar 2009
Human Trafficking: Addressing Modern Day Slavery

From prevention, intervention, and cooperation, all are important in the interconnected nature of the human trafficking problem. The many different organizations, each with a distinct purpose, must each fulfill their role in order to eliminate human trafficking. This dialogue is a space to share tactics and methods that are having some impact and success on the issue of human trafficking as well as discuss alternative and creative strategies that could be applied locally and globally.

 168 25 Feb 2009 - 3 Mar 2009
Election Monitoring Election monitoring is a powerful tool in promoting democracy, political rights and good governance. Participants in this dialogue discussed the principles behind this tactic, the risks and challenges involved, and the techniques being used by practitioners to overcome these challenges. 77 21 Jan 2009 - 27 Jan 2009
Human Rights in Higher Education: Incorporating practical experience This dialogue specifically features ideas, experiences and methods from human rights higher education programs for incorporating practical experience into human rights curriculums to better prepare human rights advocates for doing “on the ground” and “in the trenches” human rights work. 150 19 Nov 2008 - 25 Nov 2008