The seventh course: Mobilization and advocacy course

This course focuses on the nature and effectiveness of 'mobilization and advocacy' campaigns and related topics such as 'Networking' and 'Recruitment', and how these campaigns formulate their slogans, objectives and framing, as well as studying some related phenomena. The link is such that the relationship between the “repression” practiced by governments and regimes in the face of the “protest” manifestations and activities practiced by mobilization and advocacy campaigns and social movements, in addition to studying the reasons for the success and decline of these movements and campaigns by discussing practical experiences of a large variety of campaigns and movements at the global, Arab and Palestinian levels....etc. This course also studies the historical context of the emergence of these campaigns and their relationship to other tools of social or political change such as "social movements" (the largest "user" of these campaigns), social revolutions, political revolutions, coups, "interest groups", political parties, etc. All these and other topics are taught in a purposeful and participatory manner, in a way that contributes to the development of the analytical and leadership skills of the trainees.

General purpose of the course

This course focuses on the theoretical and practical foundations of the contemporary approach to mobilization and advocacy programs, based on a set of various practical experiences and on the scientific studies that examined those experiences. It also provides an in-depth discussion of a set of related concepts, phenomena, and movements.