Tactical Notebooks, empowerment, ICB
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notebook: Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompaniment

In this notebook we learn about how an international organization called Peace Brigade protects targeted organizations by sending accompaniment of international field workers.  This accompaniment allows these organizations to continue to fight human rights abuses while making it harder for governments to target them because of the international presence.

notebook: Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional Healing

In this notebook, we learn about efforts to integrate and maximize knowledge from traditional and western healing methods to reintegrate child soldiers into communities devastated by war.

notebook: Access to Justice: Creating local level, citizen action mediation bodies to ensure human rights

The Centre for Victims of Torture (CVICT) in Nepal instituted a tactic to circumvent the problem of police abuse through a process of rights-based community mediation. The tactic trains local people as mediators and resources to their communities on basic laws and human rights. In addition, it has served as a vehicle to empower women to become community leaders by addressing their individual and collective needs.
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