New Tactics Announcements

The Power of Place: Sites of Conscience

gravy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:01:54 -0500

October, 2007:

the New Tactics in Human Rights Monthly Tactical Discussion dialogue regarding how to engage the masses by utilizing public sites of memory. Featured resource practitioners, all members of the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, share their experience and expertise in creating sites of conscience.

The Power of Place: How Sites of Conscience Inspire Civic Engagement.

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Engaging the Media in Human Rights

npearson — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:14:52 -0500

New Tactics February On-line Tactical Discussion

Engaging the media in human rights is an on-going challenge and opportunity. The media play a critical role in civil society as carriers of information about how people behave, and consequently, have the ability to influence how people behave. These roles create a unique opportunity for human rights practitioners to communicate with a larger audience than otherwise possible. The challenge is to tap into this resource – and engage the media. You are still able to join our featured resource people for the New Tactics in Human Rights on-line discussion and share your own experiences, insights and questions.

Our featured resource people for the discussion include:

Alan Davis joined the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) in 1994 after training as a journalist and reporting extensively from Indochina and East Asia. He has designed and implemented IWPR programmes in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Afghanistan and leads IWPR's consultancy work. He currently heads up IWPR’s development and programme work in Asia.

Philippe Duhamel, a Canadian, writes the interTactica blog on the New Tactics website. He garnered extensive experience with the media through being a columnist for two years for the French radio network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Mufuliat Fijabi is a Senior Programme Officer with BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights in Nigeria. Before she joined BAOBAB in 1999, she was a full time journalist in both print and electronic media organizations.

Davinder Kumar is a journalist from India, now relocated in London, with over 10 years experience working in the field of human rights and one of the first journalists to be awarded the British Chevening Human Rights Scholarship in 2004 to undertake MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex.

Sharon Lamwaka is a trained journalist with experience working both nationally and internationally. Her specialty is print media although currently very involved in radio work. She is the Communications and Advocacy Officer at the African Centre for Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture Victims (ACTV) in Uganda.

For more biographical information on our featured practitioners.

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Information is Power: Librarianship and Human Rights

New Tactics — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:33:46 -0500

Read the discussion and contribute your comments, ideas and experience!

During the week of September 26 to October 2 the featured resource practitioners discussed the topic:

Information is Power: Librarianship and Human Rights.

The discussion provides great tips on methods, tools and resources to improve the way you research, document, organize, store and use information for action. Expand your role in the information chain!

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2007 New Tactics grant information - Deadline May 22, 2007

bharris — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:47:25 -0500

The New Tactics Project is very pleased to announce our availability to provide grants to organizations for Promoting Tactical Innovation and Strategic Thinking in the Global Human Rights Movement. These grants are made possible through funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The 2007 Request for Proposals and the Application Form are now available online as MS Word documents. The content of the announcement and each document can also be viewed online (HTML) here. Please note that the projects will run from June 15, 2007 to March 15, 2008 and can reach a maximum grant amount of US$7,500. These funds are intended to make it possible for human rights practitioners to share with a broad range of people the New Tactics materials and resources on tactical and strategic thinking as well as specific innovative tactics.

Liberia 2007

Controling your emails from the New Tactics Website

bharris — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:20:27 -0500

You may see many emails each day containing each new item added to the site, and then more messages when changes are made to any one post.

For some people, these emails may be useful information and easier to receive than logging into the website directly. For others, you may wish to turn off the email notifications and still view everything by logging into the website. If this is true, you will need to log in to the website, click on "My information and settings" (on the right side of the website), next click on the "Edit" button. Use the down arrow key to scroll down the page to a box labeled "organic group settings". This box contains choices for "Email Notifications". You may then choose "Never send email notifications."