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International Network of Victims of Terrorism and War
Challenges Entered:
The INVTW seeks to unite victims of political violence, war and terrorism to amplify the voices of victims speaking out for nonviolence and to create grassroots structures which support a culture of peace and common security.
The International Network seeks to unite international victims of political violence, war and terrorism to speak out for peace in their own communities and with the support of those who have gone through similar experiences regardless of nationalism. By encouraging dialogue connecting victims families we seek to support a culture of peace, and a end to a culture of the cycle of violence.
We seek to build a membership organization that uses is web-based, with regional groups, user created project pages, blogs, shared media.
WHAT WE NEED:
We need webdevelopers to help to make this happen, provide us a route to having an integrated eCRM/list-serve/membership system/online donations system. We currently use a CMS for our main website, and are looking into using drupal, civicspace, etc.
Planning is in the first stages.
Location
NY, NY
United States
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Excellent
I think this is a really strong proposal. Having visited your website, you might want to include a few screenshots -- you can really tell a lot of work is going into building this community.
While I think the underlying theory is there, you might want to list a few specific aspects of your community-building approach for NetSquared folks who are looking for that kind of technology. For instance, are you going to be soliciting user-generated content from the members/communities in the Global South? How is your international conference integrated into the structure of the organization and the site? What is the model for expanding and empowering the communities in the Global South, and reaching out to the third-party allies in the Global North?
Again, I think this is a good proposal and an excellent project, but it could benefit from a fuller explanation of the empowering aspects and technology (either existing or wished-for) that could help you implement it.
--ivan (quixotic1.com/Genocide Intervention Network)