Knowledge & Change Spotlight - social movements and citizenship

An inside perspective

Tags: Latin America , Civil Society Building
Additional tags: Social movements and citizenships mam sula batsu knowledge change dialogue

How do social movements work? How do their actions influence social change? And how do outside actors influence their dynamics? In this session, Kees Biekart, Rosalba Icaza and Jose Manuel Valverde offer an inside perspective, adding new pieces to the puzzle of social movement complexity.

Over the last three years, the Hivos-ISS Civil Society Building Knowledge Team has worked closely with a number of key social movements in the Central American region. Within this process a participatory and action-oriented research method was used. The session will discuss outcomes of this unique knowledge dialogue with representatives from the anti-TLC movement from Costa Rica (download the report here), the autonomous women’s movement in Nicaragua that struggled against the prohibition of therapeutic abortion(download the report here), and the indigenous movement from Guatemala, which is protesting against international mining and energy companies challenging their land and territory.(download video footage of recent collective action here).

Building on contributions by prominent researchers and activists from Central America such as Leonardo Merino (Researcher-activist, Sula Batsu, Costa Rica) , Juanita Jimenez (Feminist activist, MAM, Nicaragua) and Juan Tiney (Leading acticist CONIC, Guatemala) this session invites participants to take a closer look at the real world of prominent social movements in a turbulent region.

You can still register to participate in the Knowledge & Change Dialogue and this particular session here

Time: September 30, 14.00-15.44