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Blog: Acknowledging our 2010 volunteers

Posted January 6th, 2011 by kantin

Where do I begin in thanking our 2010 New Tactics volunteers? It's been another fun year of meeting new people, creating new friendships, learning from the New Tactics online community and lots of work! We worked with a great group of volunteers, interns and fellows that I would like to acknowledge:

notebook: Society as Mediator for Conflict Resolution: Elkarri’s Peace Conference

In this notebook you will learn how Elkarri, a group based in the Basque Region, has created a dialogue of social mediation that encourages participation on all levels of society. Elkarri gives community members a choice over which part of the process they chose to particpate in, but they encourage particpation for all sides of the conflict.

notebook: Breaking the Silence: Using popular culture to engage young people in human rights reporting

This notebook describes how Never Again (nigdy Wiecej), a Polish anti-racism group uses a number of tactics to attract volunteers and spread information about hate crimes and racism in Poland. Never again targets young people through concerts and football games and recruits them to join the cause. Some of these volunteers become correspondents that collect and publish information about racism in Poland and send this information to the media. This tactic encourages the spread of information for general education.