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As we are wrapping up another great year of tactical dialogues, we want to hear your ideas on topics for 2012!  What dialogue topics would you like to see in 2012?  Fundraising?  Strengthening citizen participation? This is your community so please share your ideas so we can start putting them into action!

As we are wrapping up another great year of tactical dialogues, we want to hear your ideas on topics for 2012! These dialogues are an opportunity for you to reflect on your work, share what you've learned, and learn from others.  So - what do you want to reflect on, share lessons-learned, and learn more about in 2012?

Thank you to those that participated in our 2011 dialogues!  We hosted dialogues on:

• Improving Access to Health: Activating in the intellectual property and health nexus
• Corporate Accountability Beyond Borders: Exploring home states’ efforts to protect against business-related human rights abuses
• Joining Forces: Engaging men as allies in gender-sensitive peacebuilding
• Turning the Tables: Transforming conflicts related to resource extraction
• Front Line Watchdogs: Monitoring accountability for human rights
• Being Well and Staying Safe: Resources for human rights defenders
• Using Mobile Phones for Citizen Media
• Using Technology to Promote Transparency

And we still have two dialogues coming up:

• October 19 thru 25 - Faith-Based Peacebuilding: Applying a gender perspective
• November 16 thru 22 - Using Citizen Media Tools to Promote Under-Represented Languages

So what should we do next?  With all the changes that have happened and are still happening in the Middle East North Africa region, it would be great to think about topics that can be used to share ideas with our friends and colleagues in this part of the world.  Here are a few ideas that have come up so far:

• Fundraising: what really works? Practical advice from practitioners (January 2012)
• Using international human rights mechanisms to protect the rights of the child
• Utilizing the UN Human Rights Council
• Strengthening citizen participation in local governments
• Archiving and documentation for human rights
• Humor, audacity and nonviolence
• Being well and staying safe (third annual dialogue on this important topic!)

What do you think about these topics?  Which dialogue topics would you be willing to help lead?  Which topics would be most useful to you, and why?  What topics would you like to see, that aren't listed here?  Please share your ideas by adding a comment below so we can start putting them into action!

Thanks so much for your input - and for all the great work that you do! 

Kristin Antin - New Tactics Online Community Builder