political analysis

Why activists fail | Robert Burrowes

Robert Burrowes writes: “The foundation of any sound strategy… is a thorough understanding of the conflict. This means, most importantly, having a clear sense of the ‘big picture’… not just the detail of the issue on which you focus. Fundamentally,...

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Who is running green politics?

Christine Milne “waxes critical of some in the environment movement. They are not tactically adventurous, she says. Not activist enough. They have become bureaucratised captives of Canberra, working endlessly on policy papers but ultimately failing to deliver...

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The wave

This teaching tool provides a reliable, easy-to-deliver, easy-to-understand and easy-to-remember learning experience intended to encourage people to share their own understanding of a subject and to look at the underlying reasons for different viewpoints—instead of...

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Movement Action Plan wiki

The Movement Action Plan is a strategic model for waging nonviolent social movements developed by Bill Moyer, a US social change activist. The MAP, initially developed by Moyer in the late 1970s, uses case studies of successful social movements to illustrate eight...

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Center for theory of change

A theory of change is an innovative tool to design and evaluate social change initiatives. The Center for Theory of Change is a non-profit organization established to promote quality standards and best practice for the development and implementation of Theory of...

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