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Practical Politics

By Jonathan Posted on October 16, 2016 Posted in My blog No Comments

I have long admired Titus Alexander and his persistent quest to promote the need for effective teaching about politics in this country. How are people meant to learn about how politics works? I have often been surprised when I have …

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Tagged with: campaigning, politics, teaching

Academics and campaigners in action

By Jonathan Posted on October 4, 2016 Posted in My blog No Comments

Well to answer my own question, I got an answer to my last blog post quicker than I had imagined. The answer or at last an answer hit me last week when I attended a conference on Refugee Wellbeing in …

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Tagged with: academics, campaigners, collaboration

Academics and campaigners

By Jonathan Posted on September 30, 2016 Posted in My blog No Comments

Recently I had the good fortune to be asked to be involved in the assessment for ESRC grant funding for their forced displacement research programme. I did start this assessment with, I must confess, the view that the majority of …

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Tagged with: academics, campaigners, change, research

The best made plan

By Jonathan Posted on September 19, 2016 Posted in My blog No Comments

Reflecting on my last blog post made me think of a quote that I have started using in my campaign training. “No battle plan ever survives the first contact with the enemy.” This great line is credited to Helmut von …

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Tagged with: campaign, campaign plan, theory of change

The danger of infinite campaign planning

By Jonathan Posted on September 16, 2016 Posted in My blog No Comments

I’ve just come back from Lima where I was running a training workshop for NGOs from Bolivia, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala as well as Peru. I’ve done training courses across the world but not before with Spanish translation. So I was somewhat …

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Tagged with: campaign training, campaigning, planning

Storytelling and campaigning

By Jonathan Posted on August 13, 2016 Posted in My blog No Comments

Several years ago I was due to run a campaigns workshop in Thailand, and the organiser contacted me to say that they were hoping to combine my sessions with training on story telling and wondered if I felt that this …

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Tagged with: campaigning, storytelling

The thorny issue of campaign reporting

By Jonathan Posted on August 6, 2016 Posted in My blog

One thing that I have been thinking a lot about recently is how you go about reporting on your campaign progress. How should you go about this when you are asked for your targets or for your key performance indicators? …

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Tagged with: campaigning, reporting, story, theory of change

Campaigning Summit in Switzerland

By Jonathan Posted on July 24, 2016 Posted in My blog

I led some training in Switzerland recently for the Sheila McKechnie Foundation and met a great campaigner – Peter Metzinger – a former campaigns director of Greenpeace and author of the intriguing book: The AC/DC Strategy – Rock ‘n’ Roll …

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Tagged with: campaigning, guidelines, strategic

A Blog for City of Sanctuary

By Jonathan Posted on July 19, 2016 Posted in My blog

I did a blog recently for National City of Sanctuary, the movement to welcome asylum seekers and refugees, in the run-up to their AGM in Cardiff this month – Lets unite and speak out against the injustices to build an inclusive …

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Tagged with: asylum seekers, City of Sanctuary, movement building, refugees

Speaking out in Refugee Week

By Jonathan Posted on July 2, 2016 Posted in My blog

Last week was Refugee Week across the UK where we come together across the country to celebrate the great contribution that refugees have made to our country. I started the week in Oxford where there was an innovative conference, from …

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Tagged with: asylum seekers, movement building, refugees

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