Tactical Notebooks Summary Sheet

Overview

The authors -- from diverse walks of life and human rights issue areas -- recount their personal experiences in these detailed tactical notebooks. Although their backgrounds and situations differ, all used innovative tactics to help address an urgent human rights situation. Read these notebooks to learn how a tactic was actually implemented, what factors influenced its use, and the challenges that surfaced along the way. We hope these examples of how tactics were used in sometimes
dangerous, real-life situations will help you think tactically, to consider adapting these tactics to your own context, and adding these tactics to your own tactical repertoire.


Below you will find a table of all tactical notebooks currently availble.  (Also available in Summary View and Summary View by Region)

  • Year refers to year of publication of notebook.
  • Title is the title of the notebook.
  • Region refers to the geographic region in which the tactic was implemented.
  • available in shows the various languages to which the notebook has been translated.

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Yearsort iconTitleRegionavailable in
2008Right to Know, Right to LiveAsiaEnglish
2008Building Child Friendly VillagesAsiaSpanish | English
2007Action TheatreAsiaEnglish
2006Access to Justice: Creating local level, citizen action mediation bodies to ensure human rightsAsiaNepali | English
2006Engaging Key StakeholdersAsiaEnglish
2006Engaging the Media: Building support for minimum wage reformAsiaEnglish
2006Human Rights Advocacy Utilizing Religious Perspectives and Opinion LeadersAsiaIndonesian | English
2006Police TrainingAsiaEnglish
2006Research for ActionAsiaEnglish
2006Tandem©: Cross-cultural exchange between police and migrantsWestern Europe and North AmericaEnglish
2006Women Making Peace: Mobilizing Ourselves Against the WarLatin AmericaSpanish
2005Open MemoryLatin AmericaSpanish | Mam | English | Bengali (Bangla)
2005ReparationsWestern Europe and North AmericaEnglish
2005Taking on Our Own DefenseLatin AmericaSpanish | English
2005The Human Rights Education Program for Women in TurkeyC/E Europe & TurkeyRussian | English | Armenian
2005Together We Are StrongerLatin AmericaSpanish
2005Las Iniciativas PopularesLatin AmericaSpanish
2005De la protesta a la propuestaLatin AmericaSpanish
2004A Mock Tribunal to Advance ChangeAfricaEnglish | Bengali (Bangla)
2004Complementary Strengths: Western Psychology and Traditional HealingAfricaEnglish
2004Expanding Access to JusticeLatin AmericaRussian | English | Bengali (Bangla)
2004Familiar Tools, Emerging IssuesWestern Europe and North AmericaUkrainian | Russian | Polish | English
2004Human Rights and the CorporationWestern Europe and North AmericaEnglish
2004I'll Walk Beside YouAfricaEnglish
2004International Monitoring BodiesWestern Europe and North AmericaRussian | English
2004Leveraging the MoneyWestern Europe and North AmericaRussian | English
2004Powerful PersuasionAfricaFrench | English
2004Promoting Human Rights Professionalism in the Liberian Police ForceAfricaSpanish | Russian | English
2004Public AudiencesLatin AmericaSpanish | English
2004Rebuilding CommunitiesAfricaEnglish
2004Recipe for DialogueWestern Europe and North AmericaEnglish
2004Sending Out an SMS: A rapid-response mobile phone network engages a youth constituency to stop torture fastWestern Europe and North AmericaEnglish
2004Side by Side: Protecting and encouraging threatened activists with unarmed international accompanimentWestern Europe and North AmericaEnglish
2004Society as Mediator for Conflict ResolutionWestern Europe and North AmericaEnglish
2004The Dilemma DemonstrationWestern Europe and North AmericaRussian | English | Armenian
2004The Power of Place: How historic sites can engage citizens in human rights issuesWestern Europe and North AmericaSpanish | Russian | English | Armenian
2004Uncovering the EvidenceLatin AmericaRussian | English | Armenian
2004Using Government Budgets as a Monitoring ToolAfricaRussian | English
2004Using Popular Theater to Break the Silence Around Violence Against WomenAfricaFrench
2003A Call to End CorruptionC/E Europe & TurkeyRussian | English | Bengali (Bangla)
2003Breaking the SilenceC/E Europe & TurkeyGeorgian | English
2003Educating the Next GenerationC/E Europe & TurkeyEnglish
2003Making Sense of the Information WildernessC/E Europe & TurkeyEnglish | Bengali (Bangla)
2003Making AlliesC/E Europe & TurkeyUrdu | Spanish | French | English | Chinese (Traditional) | Bengali (Bangla)
2003Making the Global LocalC/E Europe & TurkeyRussian | English | Bengali (Bangla)
2003Making the State PayC/E Europe & TurkeyRussian | English | Bengali (Bangla)
2003Plan BC/E Europe & TurkeyEnglish
2003Testing for DiscriminationC/E Europe & TurkeyUkrainian | Russian | Polish | Georgian | English | Bengali (Bangla)