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Posts for Peace and Justice Project
Description/achievement of initiative

An intergenerational, multi-cultural, multisector collaborative project which engages communities learning about, discussing deeply, then artistically expressing quotes, facts and artistic images that tell stories about the UN SDG goal being discussed. The art is done on 8' x 5" vinyl posts that can then be displayed publicly or at a place where specifics of the goal are being worked on to remind and inspire individuals, communities, groups or organizations of the shared world vision. Each community will identify places of high visibility with the ability for viewers to take their time to engage with the posts.

Implementation methodologies

The staff of Posts for Peace and Justice will create and conduct the Atlanta workshops for the first set with a collaboration with our One Billion Rising Partners, including the City of Atlanta, the King Center, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, the YWCA, etc. As we move into providing for international workshops the network at the Carter Center of the Human Rights Defenders will be utilized and well as the international OBR network. Suggested templates for the workshops will then be made available online and updated with new learnings from successes are achieved. The point will be to include all principles in each community that will be able to impact the goal or are significantly effected by it directly. It is important that this is inclusive and a valid representation of perspectives and backgrounds .

Arrangements for Capacity-Building and Technology Transfer

Because the teams will consciously be chosen to represent cross sectors, and diverse backgrounds, the process involves sharing points of view and education around capacity for each player. The engagement process allows for integrated ideas to emerge as the perspective of each team member expands from deep listening of other team members. The process is and of itself capacity-building as the community learns it can catalyze itself through recognizing and understand the stakes each of the other community members are responsible for or effected by.

Coordination mechanisms/governance structure

The staff of Posts for Peace and Justice will be handling the design and implementation of the workshops. There will be recommendations made as to what entities or roles need to be locally appointed to carry out successful projects - from team building, identifying and recruiting participants, and identifying who will be responsible in each community to identify and get approval, and install the posts in a highly visible areas for maximum impact.

Partner(s)

Carter Center, One Billion Rising, YWCA
Progress reports
Goal 16
Goal 17
09/ 2016
Post workshop to do 2nd summary post and 5 specific goal posts
10/16
Community engagement of HS and College model UN students to help plan templates
2/16 to present
Community engagement in Atlanta with resulting UN 17 SDGs post showing in various locations around Atlanta.
Winter/Spring 2017
Community engagement post workshop x 2 for Goals 6-11 and Goals 12-17 with 3rd and fourth summary posts
Staff / Technical expertise
The Carter Center staff is helping us with fundraising strategy.
Staff / Technical expertise
We have 2 Co-directors, and 6 volunteers.

Basic information
Time-frame: 02/2016 - ongoing thru 2030
Partners
Carter Center, One Billion Rising, YWCA
Countries
Contact information
Lisa Parsons, Co-Director Posts for Peace and Justice, Lisa@lispar.net
United Nations