Achieving a turning point, be it a regime, institutional, or policy change is not easy, but sustaining that change is even harder. Activists, members of civil society and nonviolent change makers around the world are calling for support as they struggle to genuinely implement democratic change the day after the revolution. CANVAS has heard this call and has created a fit-for-purpose training curriculum to provide pro-democracy activists with the skills to navigate the political transition.
At this call, CANVAS will present its Movements in Transition Project and a new training curriculum to provide activists with the skills, insights, and lessons learned to craft a strategy to achieve genuine democratic change in their school, community or country.
Isabella Cuomo, Executive Director of CANVAS U.S. will present the project and the curriculum and
Rania Aziz, Sudanese pro-democracy activist will speak about needs from Sudanese activists and lessons learned from the country’s transition.
Both will respond to questions/reflections from Amira El-Sayed, Director of Global Programs at Luminate Group, before we transition to open discussion.
CANVAS with headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia, operates a network of international trainers and consultants with expertise in building and running successful nonviolent movements. During the almost two decades of work, CANVAS learned that transitions struggle to democratize (e.g., Egypt, Sudan, Myanmar). This is in big part because movements, CSOs, activists and the global nonviolent activist community has focused more on achieving the moment of change, rather than on implementing the achieve changed and safeguarding it through the transition.
We invite you to bring your experiences and questions to the conversation! You can share them with us ahead of the call, by writing to: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, 30th of March,
8AM PDT,
11AM EDT,
5PM CEST