Justice and Human Rights India Project #10320

Tibetan Peacebuilding and Leadership Training

by Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy

Project Report | Jan 8, 2014
Youth Leadership Training Progress

By Mary Vayaliparampil | Program Manager

During the last training conducted by IMTD, the Tibetan community in India identified Cultural Preservation, Youth Leadership, and Volunteerism as three main areas that they would like future training in. After consulting with Tibetan community members in the United States and India, training modules for a 2 week youth leadership training program has been developed. The purpose of the training program is to develop skills in the Tibetan youth that will help them address practical concerns affecting the daily life of the community in India. A brief outline of the training modules is provided below:

Rough modules/agenda for each day:

1) Define the problem of concern to your community, history/origins of the problem, who are the various stakeholders in the problem, what are the multiple perspectives of the problem?

2) What is being done currently to address the problem? what is working and what is not working, what are the implementation difficulties if anything is being done about the problem?

3) What do you think needs to be done? your vision and developing a roadmap to the vision:
a) how to source information, b) using and building social networks c) using social media tools

4) Examples of youth leaders and their work from different regional contexts, successful solutions to similar problems in other regions of the world. Possible presentation by a youth leader about his/her work.

5 and 6) Develop your roadmap: steps in achieving your plan, personnel to be involved and distribution of labor, budget, timeframe

7) SWOT analysis of your roadmap : strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, how might you prepare to deal with weaknesses and threats, what could possibly go wrong with your roadmap and how might you deal with it.

8) Sources of funding for your roadmap: grants, crowdfunding, fundraising events

9) Presentation of vision and roadmap using literature, visual art, creative writing, history, dance, music, or theater

10) Evaluation

We are currently exploring the possibilities of incorporating a visit by a youth leader that has done substantial work in the cultural preservation of an indigenous/ethnic community. Suggestions are welcome from our donors and visitors to our project page for youth leaders who would serve as good examples for work in the area of cultural preservation.

As far as funds for the project goes, we have currently raised about $25,000 and are in need of an additional $ 5,000 to organize the travel of a global youth leader to Dharamsala.

Thank you for your support and dedication to the Tibetan people.

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Oct 7, 2013
The Tibetan Communities Program

By Mary Vayaliparampil | Tibet Program Manager

With the three key areas (Cultural Preservation, Youth Leadership, and Volunteerism) that were identified through previous dialogues, IMTD continues our fundraising efforts through grant applications to the US State Department and donor organizations. Simultaneously, we have started communication with Tibetans in the United States and India to get a better understanding of their needs, strengths and weaknesses. We are also collaborating with Tibetan students at Earlham College, experts on the Tibet-China conflict and NGOs in India to develop project activities that will promote leadership skills and roles, cultural preservation and volunteerism among the Tibetans in India.

In August 2011 and January 2013 IMTD conducted five-day conflict resolution workshops in Bangalore, India. Post-training, participants were surveyed and 82% expressed a desire to further discuss alternatives to returning to the Tibetan Plateau and how to further strengthen the Tibetan community living in exile. Two main topics that were frequently mentioned among the participants were the importance of cultural preservation and the need for youth leadership in the community. In addition to the two urgent need areas IMTD believes that there is a third area where improvements can be made within Tibetan civil society: volunteerism. Because volunteerism crosscuts all areas of civil society, increasing volunteerism is a sustainable solution that will help Tibetans to empower themselves with the tools necessary to strengthen their own communities.

IMTD believes that by overall strengthening of youth leadership and volunteerism in civil society, NGOs can create a stronger and more resilient civil society that will be more responsive to the needs of Tibetans living in exile. Volunteerism has the ability to empower the masses by allowing individual community members to feel mobilized in their own community’s development while concurrently preserving Tibetan culture. The end result of increased volunteerism is a paradigm shift in community development, which will have lasting impact, long after PRM funding ends.

We hope to raise enough funds in the near future to implement the new project activities!

Thank you for your support and dedication to the Tibetan people.

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Jul 11, 2013
2013 TIBET PROJECT UPDATE

By Patrick Fiander | Program Manager

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