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Method 18: Storytelling
Both personal and traditional stories can be a rich source of relating human rights themes to lived experience. Participants need a receptive audience, often a small group, and control over how much they wish to reveal about themselves. Stories can be retold from a human rights perspective, dramatized, or analyzed in relationship to human rights issues and documents.
To stimulate narratives, ask “How is this an issue in our community?” and encourage participants to offer illustrative stories from their experience. These stories need not be personal; encourage stories drawn from legend, literature, films, television, or local history. Invite historical perspective (e.g., “How was domestic violence handled in your grandmother’s day?”) and analysis of these stories. (e.g., “How might the story be different if told by the police?”).
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