{"id":8127,"date":"2023-11-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/?post_type=vocab&#038;p=8127"},"modified":"2023-11-06T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T14:15:30","slug":"awareness-based-system-change","status":"publish","type":"vocab","link":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/vocab\/awareness-based-system-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness-based System Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For example, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/publications\/dfs-awareness-based-system-change-basis-transforming-systems-and-social-norms\">Baidoa, Somalia<\/a>, UNDP launched a pilot project on awareness-based system change, with focus on empathy and Nonviolent Communication (NVC). In this project, participants shared their experience with injustice and empathise with feelings and needs of others \u2014 notably members of the underprivileged communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This resulted in new approaches to dispute resolution, where mediators were encouraged to understand each party in the conflict first before making any judgement. As each party felt heard and was given space to hear another person\u2019s perspective, they were more motivated to follow through with a solution and adopt new mental models rooted in justice and empathy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awareness-based system change means an action research approach that posits that social transformation starts with newer patterns of thinking, and that traditional modes of social intervention (e.g. policies and training) fail to truly grab the roots of inequality unless complemented with a measure to change the paradigm of thought. For this approach, consciousness is understood as a key factor in subverting oppressive ideology that translates into tangible discrimination. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8125,"template":"","categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-8127","vocab","type-vocab","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vocab\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vocab"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vocab"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}