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After violence rocked Kenya in the wake of the 2007 elections, Fahamu, an African human rights movement, set out to tackle some of the social, economic, and political factors behind the crisis.  Fahamu targeted its efforts at providing New Tactics tools to a citizen movement called the Bunge La Mwananchi – the People’s Parliament – and to a network of women living in the vast Nairobi slum of Kibera.

A tactical mapping session helped the Bunge develop the “Freedom from Hunger Train,” in which Bunge members rode on trains, distributed leaflets, and talked with passengers about the government’s responsibility to ensure food for Kenya’s people. A video documentary about ongoing peace efforts was created. And the women from Kibera, where much of the violence had taken place, met representatives from Rwanda and Burundi to learn about struggles with ethnic differences.

In helping Kenyans, Fahamu drew on a wide range of New Tactics resources – mapping workshops, notebooks describing success stories from Turkey and South Africa, and information about prevention and restoration from the New Tactics database.  Fahamu believes that these new approaches better equipped Bunge and other activist groups to reach more people and avoid arrest as they pursued a path to fairness and peace.