Photos: (L) Exterior of Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California, USA; (C) International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience plaque in Jallad Khanna, Bangladesh; (R) Liberation War Museum Exhibit International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience members including Secretariat Representative - Ereshnee Naidu, Director of Programs; and Coalition Members - Sarwar Ali, Trustee, Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh) and Sojin Kim, Exhibition Curator, Japanese American National Museum (USA) are featured resource practitioners in the October New Tactics Monthly Tactical Discussions.

October Featured Tactical Discussion

Join the New Tactics in Human Rights Community to participate in the on-line tactical discussions, including:

The Power of Place: How Sites of Conscience Inspire Civic Engagment tactical discussion features practitioners from the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience from October 24 to October 30. The featured practitioners will be sharing their experiences in creating opportunites for their historic sites to inspire and engage civil society in present day issues and concerns. The featured practitioners are: Ereshnee Naidu, Director of Programs at the International Coalition office in New York and former Project Manager for Memorialization at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa; Sarwar Ali, Trustee from Liberation War Museum in Bangladesh; and Sojin Kim, Exhibition Curator, Japanese American National Museum in the United States. Join to participate. Read More

Resource: Take advantage of this wonderful New Tactics tactical notebook resource to help you discover how you can create a site of conscience: The Power of Place: How Historic Sites Can Engage Citizens in Human Rights Issues, by Liz Sevcenko, Tenement Museum and International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, USA
En Espanol

New Tactics eNewsletter – October 24, 2007

FEATURED DISCUSSIONS

October Featured Tactical Discussion – OPEN TODAY!

Join the New Tactics in Human Rights Community to participate in the on-line tactical discussion:

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

Beginning today, October 24 until Tuesday October 30, you can engage the three featured practitioners from the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience: Sarwar Ali, Trustee from Liberation War Museum in Bangladesh; Sojin Kim, Exhibition Curator from the Japanese American National Museum in California, USA and Ereshnee Naidu, Director of Programs at the International Coalition office in New York and former Project Manager for Memorialization at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa. Join the New Tactics on-line community to participate.

http://www.newtactics.org/

http://www.sitesofconscience.org/

http://www.liberationmuseum.org.bd/

http://www.janm.org/

http://www.csvr.org.za/

Save the Dates for November-December Tactical Discussion

Using Mobile Phones for Action will take place November 28 to December 4, 2007. Confirmed featured practitioners are: Evans Wafula, Africa Interactive (East Africa); Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and FrontlineSMS (free text messaging application for NGOs); Ellene Sana, Center for Migrant Advocacy Philippines; and Natasha Dokovska, Journalists for Children and Women Rights and Protection of Environment (JCWE) Macedonia.  

http://www.interactiveafrica.com/

http://kiwanja.net/

http://frontlinesms.kiwanja.net/

http://www.pinoy-abroad.net/lungga/index.shtml

http://www.detstvo.org.mk/

RESOURCES

The featured resource for this month’s tactical discussion is the tactical notebook, The Power of Place: How Historic Sites Can Engage Citizens in Human Rights Issues, by Liz Sevcenko from the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, USA. The notebook has been translated into Spanish and a summary version is available in Russian.

Introduction: http://www.newtactics.org/ThePowerofPlace

English: http://www.newtactics.org/sites/newtactics.org/files/resources/Sevcenko_Power_en_update2007.pdf 

En Espanol: http://www.newtactics.org/sites/newtactics.org/files/resources/Sevcenko_Power_sp.pdf

Summary version in Russian: http://www.newtactics.org/sites/newtactics.org/files/resources/Sevcenko_Power_ru.pdf

interTactica

Philippe Duhamel’s blog features great summaries of New Tactics resource materials and helpful tips about how advocates can put these ideas to work. Available en Francais. Read his great summary on “The Power of Place” on “Creative Uses of History” for this month’s tactical discussion.

English: http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/philippe-duhamel

En Francais: http://www.newtactics.org/fr/blog/interTactica

Blog post : http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/philippe-duhamel/creative-uses-history

IN THE NEWSROOM: Fellowships and call for papers

[For these and other announcements, please visit http://www.newtactics.org/en/Newsroom]

Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program – Deadline November 1, 2007
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC invites applications from candidates throughout the world for fellowships in 2008–2009. The program is intended primarily to support activists, practitioners, and scholars from new and aspiring democracies; distinguished scholars from the United States and other established democracies are also eligible to apply. Projects may focus on the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural aspects of democratic development and may include a range of methodologies and approaches. For more information, visit: www.ned.org/forum/reagan-fascell.html

John Smith Development Program – Deadline November 6, 2007

The John Smith Memorial Trust based in London is currently seeking applications from potential candidates for its 2008 Fellowship Program, to take place in June/July next year.  The program aims to strengthen and deepen democratic awareness and good governance through a study program in the United Kingdom and placements that show the workings of democratic organizations and their role within a democratic society.  Applicants must be from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, or Ukraine.  The Trust aims to recruit influential young leaders who will make a substantial impact on the future development of their countries. For more information, visit: www.johnsmithmemorialtrust.org/Web/Site/Programme/how_to_apply.asp

Call for Papers: “Libraries from Human Rights Perspective” – 1st Deadline November 30, 2007

The Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies (RCHRS), in cooperation with the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, is arranging an international conference on Libraries from Human Rights Perspective in Ramallah 31 March - 2 April 2008. The Center invites interested writers and researchers to submit abstracts for their papers in either English or Arabic on a number of topics relating to librarianship in human rights, the human rights of library situations, intellectual freedom, and more. Abstracts due November 30; final paper deadline for approved abstracts March 1. For more information, visit: http://www.rchrs.ps/aboutC.html

To see the New Tactics discussion on Librarianship and Human Rights, visit: http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/information-power

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