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While we came from backgrounds of helping children, women, political activists, victims of violence, and many other causes, we all agreed that we were "among friends" where we didn’t need to defend our issues, but rather to be in dialog about the best strategies to use to achieve forward movement of any of the causes. This was a gathering of people who "do" and "create" and "innovate," each in his/her own expression of the struggle for "radical social change."

First hand reflections of the New Tactics World Symposium, by Eva Spranger

"Then it dawned on me – I am a human rights worker!" Eva Spranger is a social worker at the Center for Victims of Torture. She writes about how the Symposium helped connect her own work in torture treatment to the larger human rights movement.

Attending the New Tactics in Human Rights Symposium was a pivotal event in my work in human rights. It provided the chance to join a gathering in which the diverse participants focused on solutions rather than an endless expression of the various human rights problems they work on. While we came from backgrounds of helping children, women, political activists, victims of violence, and many other causes, we all agreed that we were "among friends" where we didn’t need to defend our issues, but rather to be in dialog about the best strategies to use to achieve forward movement of any of the causes. This was a gathering of people who "do" and "create" and "innovate," each in his/her own expression of the struggle for "radical social change."

Click here to read more about Eva's experience as a participant in the 2004 New Tactics World Symposium.