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Hands-on Experience

The methodology of the workshop was based on the experience that New Tactics and its partners have acquired by holding gatherings over the past six years, including New Tactics workshops in: Romania, South Africa, Turkey, Italy, Peru, and Thailand; as well as CVT-International Capacity Building Project workshops in Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Kenya and Nepal. The workshops have proven effective in helping diverse activists present their approaches in a way that emphasizes a step-by-step process outlining how a specific tactic was carried out and applied, and gives ideas for how it could be adapted to new situations.

At the one-day public event, various issues were identified as important to Liberian society. During the four-day workshop, participants gathered into smaller collaborative groups, called "villages," to explore in-depth one of these issue areas. These villages were self-selected through a creative process that gathered participants according to their common interests.

The four-day workshop gave each small group an opportunity to work intensively to create customized "tactical portfolios." New Tactics employs a package of training tools including "tactical mapping," the Training for Change "spectrum of allies," (Photo above: Green Village Tactical Map and Spectrum of Allies) and electronic tools available on the New Tactics website. (Photo at right: the "buddy" selection process)

Integrated Technology

The process and the documentation tools allowed participants to analyze their strategic situation, identify allies, collaborate on complex campaigns, and plan future actions, in part by adapting promising approaches used elsewhere in similar strategic situations.

Participants increased their capacity to use website tools and resources, and learned additional skills. These skills will help them to be more effective in posting their own experiences with the use of tactics and sharing ideas with others on the New Tactics website.

Participants at the workshop also had the opportunity to develop computer technology skills such as entering their organizational and biographical information; posting personal reflections; and uploading files and pictures. All these workshop resources and reflections continue to be available to the participants of the Liberia workshop on the New Tactics website.

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