Rabat Workshop 2007

Comprehensive Capacity Building program for MENA Civil Society Actors
on Democracy Transition Strategies[1]
Launching Program
 
Rabat, 18-26 November 2007
 
18 November:
 
10:00 – 10:30 Opening Ceremony and presentation of the aims of the meeting
Interventions by the organisers explaining the various articulations of the meeting (non-violent action and strategies; Transitional Justice; Arab Citizenship movement; Al Kawakibi Chair)
-        Mohsen Marzouk (General presentation of the meetings program)
-        AIHR
-        OMDH
-        NPWJ
-        Freedom House
 
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
 
11:15- 18:00 Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies –
Location: Hotel Sofitel-Rabat
 
Civic Mobilization Theory – The First Step: A Vision of Tomorrow.
Participants will have a basic understanding of the theory of non-violent struggle from the books of Gene Sharp and Robert Helvey distributed prior the workshop. However, recognizing that these concepts are new, we will conduct and in-depth review of the theory of civic mobilization. (The trainers will introduce how and why it is applied in training activists engaging in projects for reform as well as which training tools are used to facilitate learning in this area.)
 
19 November:
 
All day: Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies
Civic Mobilization Theory – Pillars of Support
(Participants will gain a closer understanding how power functions in a society, which means redirecting it into institutions, which is how the ruler must first disperse power in order to rule and which is then concentrated in organizations and institutions. Those institutions holding up the structures of power are called Pillars of Support.)
 
 
20 November:
 
All day Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies
Civic Mobilization Theory – “Power-graph” exercise.
(Introducing the “snapshot” analysis concept, participants will conduct an analysis of pillars of support for
their country in a “power-graph”)
 
21 November:
 
All day Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies
Mechanisms and Methods of Civic Mobilization
Concept of Conversion, Concept of Accommodation, Concept of Coercion/Disintegration will be discussed
 
In Parallel:
Venue: OMDH Rabat
Al Kawakibi Chair for Democracy Transition Study - Launching Program
Division of Labour and Time line
 
22 November:
 
All Day Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies
Classes of Non Violent action: Protest and persuasion. Non cooperation and intervention
 
23 November:
 
9:30 – 10:15 Regional Working Group on Transitional Justice
Venue: OMDH
 
Welcome speech by: Amina BouAyache, OMDH President
Mohsen Marzouk, Executive Coordinator, Kadem
 
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee Break
 
10:45 – 14:00 Regional Working Group on Transitional Justice
Session 1: Assessment of Needs in selected countries
-        Presentation 1
-        Presentation 2
-        Presentation 3
-        Presentation 4
 
14:00 – 15:30 Lunch
 
15:30 – 17:00 Regional Working Group on Transitional Justice
Session 2: Recommendation for a genuine Transitional Justice processes
 
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break
 
17:30 – 18:15 Wrap-up of the day
 
All Day Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies – Parallel session
Participants will learn how to turn theory and project plans into actions that yield results. The major subjects are Selecting tactics, Influencing Audiences (including marketing and branding), Influencing External Audiences, Managing a Civic Mobilization Campaign (including Organizational Design and Development, recruiting, training, and working with grassroots volunteers). How to set up an organization and mobilize for grass roots action includes recruiting and training
members for grassroots action, and coalition building with other civic groups.
 
24 November:
 
All Day Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies
Participants will learn how to turn theory and project plans into actions that yield results. The major subjects are Selecting tactics, Influencing Audiences (including marketing and branding), Influencing External Audiences, Managing a Civic Mobilization Campaign (including Organizational Design and Development, recruiting, training, and working with grassroots volunteers). How to set up an organization and mobilize for grass roots action includes recruiting and training members for grassroots action, and coalition building with other civic groups.
 
In parallel:
9:30 – 11:15 Regional Working Group on Transitional Justice
Venue: OMDH
 
Action Plan
 
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
 
11:45 – 13:30 Regional Working Group on Transitional Justice
Action Plan (continued)
 
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
 
15:00 - 17:00 Regional Working Group on Transitional Justice
Defining responsibilities and duties of the Working Group on Transitional Justice
 
25 November:
 
9:00-13:00 Public meeting on the Arab Citizenship movement

1. Presentation of the concept: Mohsen Marzouk

Discussion
 

2. What do we mean by “movement”?: TBD

Social forces-objectives and dynamics of the movement
 
Discussion
 
All Day Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies –
 
Evaluation
 
26 November:
 
All Day Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies
Closing

[1] Training of Trainers on Non Violent Action and Strategies; Regional Working Group on Transitional Justice; Strategic Planning Meeting on the Arab Citizenship movement; Al Kawakibi Chair for Democracy Transition Study