A New Weave of Power People and Politics

This field manual provides a well-tested approach for promoting citizen participation. It breaks down the traditional boxes separating human rights rule of law development and governance and reconnects them in order to create an integrated approach to rights-based political empowerment. A New Weave of Power People & Politics combines concrete and practical 'action steps' with a sound theoretical foundation to help users understand the process of advocacy planning and implementation. This is an 'Action Guide' that builds on the authors' 50 years of combined experience in advocacy gender human rights popular education and social change. These collective experiences were gathered in Asia Africa Latin America the Middle East Europe the former Soviet Union and North America and they range from participatory research and community development to neighbourhood organizing and legal rights education to large-scale campaign advocacy. It delves more deeply into questions of citizenship constituency-building social change gender and accountability.