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Blog: From Motivation to Solution: A Strategy Tool

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Post October 12th, 2007 por Philippe Duhamel
Motivation to solutionHow do you eradicate an age-old abusive practice so entrenched it has become woven into a people's identity?

What if the practice serves to assuage powerful, visceral fears? What if the practice also meets some real needs, such as for food, housework and sex?

Pretending for a minute you could even end the practice, how would you then prevent it from raising its ugly head again?

One of the leading promoters of human rights in Africa, Emile Francis Short must also be a master of strategy. In his tactical notebook entitled Powerful Persuasion: Combating traditional practices that violate human rights, you can study the 10-year campaign he led in Ghana to free thousands of women and girls from religious enslavement.

It is a riveting story. I am especially grateful to Mr. Short for letting us in on the sophisticated design of his highly successful campaign. Somewhere in there, I got a glimpse of a powerful strategizing tool that could be more widely used. I'll call it the Motivation to Solution Strategy Tool.

notebook: Leveraging the Money: Enforcing human rights by influencing financial institutions

In this notebook Ulrich Mueller describes a strategy of the FoodFirst Information and Action Network to influence large mining operations that were causing various human rights abuses, by putting pressure on banks and other financial institutions that invest in those mines.

notebook: International Monitoring Bodies: Powerful tools for leveraging local change

This notebook demonstrates how international mechanisms can be a powerful tool for organizations trying to bring about change in their community.  This notebook uses the example of Northern Ireland and describes how the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) was able to successfully utilise the UN Committee Against Torture to pressure the UK to establish mechanisms and standards

notebook: A Call to End Corruption: One Minute of Darkness for Constant Light

In this notebook a strong message was sent to theTurkish government when 30 million people turned off their lights for a full minute.  With this simple action the people of Turkey began to speak out against government corruption and break the cycle of fear and apathy. Turning off lights turned into stronger forms of protest and became the biggest public protest against corruption in Turkish history.