Human Rights Advocacy
Intensive two-day course
Dates: 16 - 17 November 2017
http://www.lse.ac.uk/humanRights/teaching/Human-Rights-Advocacy.aspx
This course provides the latest analysis of the theory and practice of advocacy, both advocacy branded as “human rights” and advocacy undertaken within the social justice and humanitarian field. Participants will explore key examples of successful human rights advocacy and techniques that have been effective, while also reviewing critiques of the legitimacy or inadequacy of the human rights approach.
The course scrutinises different approaches to advocacy and the challenges of getting organisations to examine embedded practices, think in different ways, and become more effective in their work. The classes will consider how to select effective advocacy tools and targets, the usefulness (or otherwise) of framing a problem as a human rights issue and the identification of key objectives for change. The tricky business of measuring success will be a key area of discussion and instructors will present an array of approaches to evaluating human rights advocacy. The course will consider systematic planning and evaluation as tools of learning, accountability and legitimacy – and not only as necessities for management or fundraising. The aim of the course is to give participants from a range of different backgrounds access to a set of tools that can enable them to engage more creatively and effectively with the problems they wish to solve.
Course components
The course will consist of a mixture of presentations from the instructors, discussions among participants, and presentations from participants themselves on advocacy issues with which they are engaged. There are six sessions, each considering a question:
How does change happen: what are the theories and models that explain shifts in public policy?
What is the added value that a human rights approach brings to advocacy?
When may a human rights approach be insufficient or unhelpful?
What are the tools available and how to think creatively on using them?
How to manage questions of legitimacy and authenticity?
How can success or failure in human rights advocacy be evaluated?
Teachers
This course is taught by a team of leading advocacy specialists. In 2017 these include:
Francesca Klug OBE, Visiting Professor, LSE Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Savio Carvalho, Global Campaign Director, Water Aid
Claire Hutchings, Head of Programme Quality,Oxfam
Matthew Waites, Senior Lecturer (Sociology), University of Glasgow
Sam Zarifi, Secretary General, ICJ (International Commission of Jurists)
Heidi Elfriede El-Megrisi
LSE Human Rights Manager
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
LSE Human Rights
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Location on campus:
S110, Dept. of Sociology, St Clement’s
Clare Market, WC2A 2AB
Tel: +44 (0) 207-955-6428
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