Tactical Innovation and Strategic Thinking
A community for people committed to Human Rights
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
Featured Resource: Highlighted Tactic
Promoting community policing through computer-based training
Responding to accounts of police brutality and human rights violations, Forum-Asia promotes community policing in Thailand by providing training to Thailand’s Royal Police Force through a computer-based training. The specialized training program, supported by the leadership in the RPF, tactically focuses on practical behavioral skills and professionalism to promote human rights in policing. Their goal is to improve the conduct of police officers to conform to international human rights standards, and to promote a community-oriented perspective on policing, accountability, and transparence, as well as to establish a long-term relationship with the community. While human rights based training has been ineffective in the past due to a number of reasons including the fact that it has been mainly theoretical in nature, has been based on the perspective of civil society as opposed to the police, and has not been incorporated into practical training, the program focuses on practical behavioral skills and professionalism that meet the needs of the police officers while promoting human rights.
Objective:
To open the door for professional and community-oriented policing
interTactica
From the 1960's to this day, the Sharpeville massacre under apartheid
South Africa has been regularly cited as a clear-cut example of why
nonviolent action doesn't work. As part of our series on nonviolent
struggle, we take a closer look at what happened on that fateful day
when women, children and men were shot dead by police, and its
aftermath. Was the only possible conclusion that armed struggle was
going to be the only option? What might such levels of repression mean
for the relevance of unarmed methods of fundamental change?
Dialogue: The Sharpeville Massacre: Defeat or Backfire?
From the 1960's to this day, the Sharpeville massacre under apartheid
South Africa has been regularly cited as a clear-cut example of why
nonviolent action doesn't work. As part of our series on nonviolent
struggle, we take a closer look at what happened on that fateful day
when women, children and men were shot dead by police, and its
aftermath. Was the only possible conclusion that armed struggle was
going to be the only option? What might such levels of repression mean
for the relevance of unarmed methods of fundamental change?
Highlighted Dialogue
Dialogue: Significance of law enforcement officers training
Generally, training is a heart topic of development in any field, as it brings to practice most recent successful methodologies of doing things, and it also relates practices to theories in a homogenous way, it goes beyond doubt that training has a similar importance to bring both legal & human-rights imperativeness knowledge to law enforcement officers( later cited as LEOs), training here is a multi-layer process of upgrading the awareness and enriching performance methodologies mainly at the police level, it helps a lot when the personnel are of common understanding of their obligations in terms of the service delivery to the society they serve.
- Read More
- 1 reply
Community Announcements
Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (U.S.A.) accepting 2010-2011 Fellowship Applications - Application deadline 24 Nov 2009
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is accepting fellowship applications for the 2010-11 academic year. These fellowships are intended to encourage writing and research based on the Holocaust, and the fellowship awards are open to individuals in all fields.
Call for Applications: Nonviolence Education & Training - Deadline 30 Nov 2009
Nonviolence training provides civil society organizations with
essential peacebuilding skills and concepts. These skills and concepts
focus on ways to increase social mobilization and countervailing power.
Nonviolence training aims to empower marginalized groups so that they
can assert their rights, create their own opportunities, and access
resources.
Colby College announces opening for 2010 Oak Human Rights Fellowship Applications - Deadline - 15 December 2009
Colby College in Waterville, Maine, USA announces the opening for applications for the 2010 Oak Human Rights Fellowship, that is sponsored by the Oak Institute for the Study of International Human Rights at Colby College.
Training: Best Practices for defending the human rights of scientists - Register by 15 December 2009
This Scholars at Risk training opportunity will prepare scientific associations to respond to alleged violations of the human rights of scientists. Combining case study, role play and guided discussion, the session aims to equip scientific associations to act effectively in defense of the welfare of scientists around the world.
What is 'New Tactics'?
Join our featured dialogue!
Dialogue: Training Law Enforcement for Prevention of Ill-Treatment and Torture
It's not too late to add your comments to this on-line dialogue featuring Training Law Enforcement
for Prevention of Ill-Treatment and Torture. The dialogue featured
law enforcement professionals, torture prevention organizations and
torture treatment and rehabilitation programs from around the world
sharing effective ways of bridging the challenges law enforcement face
and citizens they serve.
- Read More
- 163 replies
Translate this Website
Helpful Hints
New Tactics in Action!
How have practitioners used the New Tactics resources? Read these stories of 'New Tactics in Action' to find out!
