Session 6: Navigating the Digital Realm

In this session, we’ll discuss how, as activists, we should navigate this space, interpret and analyze information in social media and news, and use the internet to spread our own information to advance the movement’s goals. Most importantly, we’ll cover how to protect sensitive information about ourselves and our colleagues to reduce the risk of […]

Session 5: Tactical Approaches: Choosing, Developing, and Fostering Inclusive Engagement

In this session, we will explore how to innovate tactics. We’ll look at how to launch an effective movement for securing rights, freedom, and justice, which requires tactical planning and precise organization. However, many protest movements do not expand beyond initial protests and marches. Movements must use their creativity to innovate tactics tailored to their […]

Session 4: Risk Management, suppression and arrest

In this session, however, we will focus on the topic of “repression,” examining its dynamics and methods. Through the cases we discuss, we aim to better understand the risks associated with the actions we take. Stay with us!

Session 2: Crafting Strategy

In this session, we will focus on how to develop a winning strategy. We will look at research findings on inclusive approaches, tools, and how to use them to turn a strategic framework into action. This course, organized in collaboration with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), explores the fundamentals of activism in Iran […]

Session 1: Iranian Milieu and the Fundamental Activism Concepts

In this course, organized in collaboration with the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), we explore the foundations of activism in Iran and how people join protest movements. More specifically, in the first session, we examine the different roles people play in the struggle and how these roles complement each other. We then discuss why […]

Activism 101

Perhaps many of us Iranians don’t realize that we are living in times where political activism has become a field of knowledge. Meanwhile, the lives of many of us are so intertwined with the current situation that activism has become an integral part of our daily existence. This inevitable situation leads to inevitable consequences—from our […]