Printer-friendly versionSend to friendFind new allies. Look around. Who’s the least likely person or organization with whom you might form a partnership? Is it a government official or office? Is it an organization that works on issues that seem so different from yours that you don’t know what you have in common? (Maybe you work on HIV/AIDS or women’s issues and have never considered working with an environmental group.) Now get creative: What could you learn from or share with this organization? What kind of a partnership could you form and how would both of you benefit? Forging unlikely alliances is a valuable way to find new resources, build capacity in new areas, shift tactics and strengthen our work. Resolve to build a new partnership in the next few months. You’ll be surprised what you’ll learn! Resources: Making Allies: Engaging Government Officials to Advance Human Rights, by Boris Pustyntsev, in the Tactical Notebook Series Powerful Persuasion: Combat Traditional Practices that Violate Human Rights, by Emile Short, in the Tactical Notebook Series Recipe for Dialogue, by Jo Render, in the Tactical Notebook Series Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional Healing, by Lucrecia Wamba, in the Tactical Notebook Series Human Rights and the Corporate Actor, by Reed Addis, in the Tactical Notebook Series, in the Tactical Notebook Series Popular Theater and the Taboos around Violence Against Women, by Oulimata Gaye, in the Tactical Notebook Series (in French) Online tactic database