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Send to friendNew Tactics has developed tools for human rights practitioners to use for their own training activities. Many of these tools have been created for our own trainings that we have carried out with human rights practitioners. You will also find tools here that have been developed by Training for Change. These tools will help you train others on strategic thinking, tactical innovation, and team building.
Some of these tools have been translated. You can also view a full listing of our translated content.
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Type of tool |
Description | Download files |
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| Tactical Mapping: A Case in Point | Articles & Guides |
This is an article that illustrates how the tactical map tool provides a visual understanding of how organizations choose tactics that target different points of intervention. This article uses the issue of torture but the tool can be used for any issue. |
English |
| The Need For New Tactics by D. Johnson | Articles & Guides |
An article by Douglas A. Johnson, outlining six reasons why new tactics are needed in human rights work. |
Need for New Tactics D. Johnson |
| The Need for New Tactics | Articles & Guides |
A guide with examples of how others have used new tactics effectively in human rights work. |
Need for New Tactics Guide |
| Understanding Strategy and Tactics | Articles & Guides |
A guide for thinking about why strategies and tactics are important in your work. |
Understanding Strategy Tactics |
| Developing Creative Tactics and Strategies | Articles & Guides |
Sun Tzu believed that in order to achieve success you must know yourself, know your opponent and know the terrain. |
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| 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action | Articles & Guides |
Publication from The Albert Einstein Institution. |
198 nonviolent actionmmethods |
| Creating a Buddy System (by Training for Change) | Articles & Guides |
How to set up a buddy system |
Creating a Buddy System |
| Tactical Mapping: a short introduction | Articles & Guides |
The Tactical Mapping technique is part of the New Tactics in Human Rights Project, initiated by the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT). Since 1985, CVT has provided care and rehabilitative services to survivors of politically motivated torture from over 60 countries. |
Tactical Mapping Article |
| Tactical Mapping: How Nonprofits Can Identify the Levers of Change | Articles & Guides |
An article (8 pages) published in the Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer 2009. |
Tactical Map NPQ article |
| An Overview of Tactical Mapping | Articles & Guides |
A more comprehensive history of the tool as well as some detailed examples of its application. |
TacticalMapArticle 2008 |
| Tactical Mapping | Collections of Resources |
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| Tactics and Tactical Thinking | Collections of Resources |
An overview of the need for tactics and tactical thinking in human rights work, and a list of resources for further information. |
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| New Tactics Resources for Educators | Collections of Resources |
New Tactics Resources for Educators is a collection of resources for educators interested in integrating New Tactics ideas and information into the classroom. These resources include: articles, guides, group activities, exercises, and classroom modules. |
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| Spectrum of Allies (Training for Change) | Exercises & Group Activities |
'Spectrum of Allies' is a tool to examine social forces and groups, spread across the spectrum from those who are the most active supporters to those who are the most dedicated opponents. This tool works well alongside the Tactical Mapping tool. |
Facilitation Guide - English |
| A Big Wind Blows | Exercises & Group Activities |
This trust-building and "get to know you" game can be used a few times over the duration of a multi-day workshop. As trust levels increase, the statements can get more risky... |
A Big Wind Blows |
| Creating Ground Rules | Exercises & Group Activities |
This quick exercise will allow a group to establish its own set of rules and principles. When self-generated, rules are more likely to be "owned" by the group. If participants do not respect the rules, you can refer back to the list to re-centre behaviour. |
Creating Ground Rules |
| Creating A Tactical Timeline | Exercises & Group Activities |
Designed by Nancy Pearson and Philippe Duhamel for the Asia Regional Workshop of the New Tactics Project, August 2005. |
Creating a Tactical Timeline |
| Stories under the Baobab | Exercises & Group Activities |
We will tell stories of our struggles and look at what makes our efforts successful. |
Stories under the Baobab |
| Myth, Reality, Value | Exercises & Group Activities |
A tool to help you base a campaign on broader societal values. |
Myth Reality Value Handout |
| Flip the Blanket | Exercises & Group Activities |
A tool to build trust and learn about group dynamics through a group challenge and a tool that can help define strategy, tactics, and leadership roles. |
Flipping the Blanket Exercise |
| Myth, Reality, Value Exercise | Exercises & Group Activities |
A tool to help you base a campaign on broader societal values. |
Myth Reality Value Exercise |
| Vision Gallery | Exercises & Group Activities |
An activity used with "village" groupings (issue-based clusters) to help us envision goals that may feed our strategizing exercises. |
Vision Gallery Exercise |
| New Tactics in Human Rights: A Resource for Practitioners | New Tactics Workbook: A Resource for Practitioners |
This book, published by the Center for Victims of Torture - New Tactics in Human Rights Project, is a collection of 100 stories of successful tatics used for human rights work. The stories come from all over the world and range from prevention tactics to intervention tactics, restorative tactics to those that building human rights cultures and institutions. |
A Resource for Practitioners (English) - entire book |
| New Tactics Workbook Discussion Guide | Resources for Educators |
This is a classroom discussion guide designed to compliment the New Tactics workbook. By incorporating this workbok in the classroom, students can learn from the practical experiences of others, understand the benefits of strategic and tactical thinking, and develop new skills in analyzing approaches being used to combat human rights abuses around the world. |
workbook guide |
| New Tactics Notebook Discussion Guide | Resources for Educators |
Tactical Notebooks can be an invaluable teaching resource to understand the connection between tactics and strategy, and provide students with a practical understanding of how human rights work is carried out. |
notebook guide |
| Classroom Module: Using the tactics database in the classroom | Resources for Educators |
Cross-disciplinary modules for the effective use of New Tactics database in the classroom. This module helps educators to introduce examples of tactics being used around the world to their students. Information on this module: |
tactics module |
A collection of articles and guides for using New Tactics' Tactical Mapping Tool. Tactical Mapping is a method of visualizing the institutions and relationships sustaining human rights abuses, and then tracking the nature and potency of tactics available to affect these systems, ultimately serving as a tool to monitor the implementation of strategy. 
