PHM-Exch> Food for a critical and transformative thought

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 301 **

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*TRADITIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING IN CURRENT DEVELOPMENT SCHEMES BOILS DOWN TO
REITERATING A CERTAIN LOGIC OF THINKING THAT SERVES THE HEGEMONIC AIMS OF
THE PREVAILING DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM. HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING IS DIFFERENT.*



Human rights learning (HRL) is necessary, precisely because knowledge in
traditional capacity building in development work has been much fragmented
to the disciplinary realm. Conversely, HRL is about how we conceive and
carry out a critical and transformative learning experience for HRL
participants. The question then is: Which would these key critical and
transformative capacities that graduates will have at the end of their
learning be? A critical education for us means providing the tools to
change a society that is organized around relations of oppression and that
keeps generating inequality.



HRL aims at participants taking home competencies that bring about their
active participation, their making a commitment and their taking
responsibility as dynamic and energetic social actors. Their acquisition of
not only knowledge, but of human rights (HR) values is today an imperative.


 HRL thus promotes the political alignment of participants with their
respective environments in a clearly oriented way that results in social,
organizational and communication practices that have the potential to build
a strong social movement that is both critical and transformative. In
essence, HRL promotes an alliance between participants and the already
existing social movement(s) in the area where they come from.

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Claudio
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