Advocacy

One of the two sources information that feeds into the map of the Jai Jagat is from the case studies/approach papers. You will find below that the Proposed Template and General Guidelines assists in identifying how to write up a nonviolent action.

Objectives of Case Studies/Approach Papers

1. To develop approaches using a holistic nonviolent perspective and interventions.
2. To derive from these papers common tools, strategies, principles of nonviolence.
3. To organise these approach papers around justice, equality, dignity and rights of the marginalized people.
4. To synthesise these cases with the aim as the basis of the dialogue with people, society and the institutions.

Proposed Template

• The papers must be of alternative solutions that have led (are leading) to positive change for people who need it the most; initiatives that have risen from the bottom are encouraged.
• Presented from the lens of nonviolence, this case study must offer a clear understanding of : What it is about, what happened, who did what, when, how, what was the impact of the actions and any learnings that can drawn from it.
• We encourage the author to write the case in the way that it seems most appropriate to the author, people and region it is associated with.
• Initiatives could range from a campaign to local innovation, and could be cases that have already been documented.
• We recommend considering the linkages between the local action and global impact local to global (eg a national or international policy or power structure that has helped or impeded change or been influenced).

General Guidelines

1.1  Executive summary of the study (750 words)

1.2  Geographical coordinates with brief analysis on the theme, the particular region and the prevailing problems (500 words)

1.3  Strategic nonviolent interventions(processes) by the initiative, organisation, community or group of people to address the problems as solutions. Giving the different nonviolent processes and tools employed and their impact (1500 words)

1.4  Challenges

Key challenges encountered during and post the intervention. The corrective processes used to address these, its impact and present status. (1000 words)

1.5 Brief analysis on the engagement and different kinds of responses received from the respective community, state, corporations, policy makers, and global/national institutions. (1000 words)

1.6 Community Ownership

Degree of future scope and sustenance of these practices in being carried forward independently (750 words)

1.7  Learnings and scope

Key learnings and scope for application of these practices from local and global perspectives(750 words)