TACTICAL THINKING
TACTICS, STRATEGY & CREATIVITY
COLLECTIONS OF RESOURCES
| A collection of resources for educators and trainers interested in integrating New Tactics ideas and information into the classroom. These resources include: articles, guides, group activities, exercises, and classroom modul | |
A collection of resources on strategic and tactical thinking, and the need for new and innovative tactics. This is the first stop for practitioners interested in learning more about strategy and tactics. | |
| Tactical Mapping | A collection of articles and guides for using New Tactics' Tactical Mapping Tool. |
| Spectrum of Allies | A collection of resources on how to use the 'Training for Change' Spectrum of Allies. |
ARTICLES & GUIDES
Overview of Tactical Mapping Eight-pages Tactical Mapping (Article)* Two-pages | These articles provide an overivew of Tactical Mapping, a method of visualizing relationships sustaining human rights abuses (ie. institutions, individuals...). Such a map can be used to track the nature and potency of tactics available to affect these relationships. See also 'Visualizing Information for Advocacy' by the Tactical Technology Collective. |
| An example of how the tactical map tool can be used to understand how tactics have been used using "A Case in Point: Using the Tactical Map with the Issue of Torture". | |
| Sample Tactical Map* | Image of a tactical map as it is being created. |
| Six reasons that new tactics are needed in human rights work. | |
The Need for New Tactics (Guide)* [Croatian] [French] [Russian] [Spanish] [Tetum (East Timor)] | A guide with examples of how others have used new tactics effectively in human rights work. |
| A guide for thinking about why strategies and tactics are important in your work. | |
| Learn, step by step, how to adapt and use innovative strategy to advance and enhance human rights work globally | |
| Publication from The Albert Einstein Institution. |
EXERCISES & GROUP ACTIVITIES
| This trust-building and "get to know you" game can be used a few times over the duration of a multi-day workshop. As trust levels increase, the statements can get more risky... | |
| This quick exercise will allow a group to establish its own set of rules and principles. When self-generated, rules are more likely to be "owned" by the group. If participants do not respect the rules, you can refer back to the list to re-centre behaviour. | |
| Designed by Nancy Pearson and Philippe Duhamel for the Asia Regional Workshop of the New Tactics Project, August 2005. | |
| We will tell stories of our struggles and look at what makes our efforts successful. |
TOOLS FROM TRAINING FOR CHANGE (trainingforchange.org)
| How to set up a Buddy System. | |
| A tool to build trust and learn about group dynamics through a group challenge and a tool that can help define strategy, tactics, and leadership roles. | |
| A tool to help you base a campaign on broader societal values. | |
| A tool to examine social forces and groups, spread across the spectrum from those who are the most active supporters to those who are the most dedicated opponents. | |
| An activity used with "village" groupings (issue-based clusters) to help us envision goals that may feed our strategizing exercises. |
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