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Systems Thinking for Campaigning and Organizing – تفکر سیستمی برای کمپین و سازماندهی (English and Farsi)

Blueprints for Change
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    Strategy

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    English, Farsi

Tool in Farsi for developing an understanding of the system you want to change and developing effective strategies to shift it.

Summary

Systems thinking provides campaigners and organisers with an overall approach and a set of tools to understand the entrenched problems we work on and more strategically engage with the complex systems that we operate in.
In this guide we look at systems practice as an overarching approach that can help our campaigns and organising strategies be more effective at driving systems change. This approach is grounded in some key principles including focusing on relationships and patterns, working to unlock the forces of change, putting pressure on “leverage points”, planning to adapt and engaging multiple perspectives. We also go through a broad, flexible process that can be used to focus campaigning and organising strategies on driving systemic change. This is achieved by developing an understanding of the system you want to shift, identifying levers of change in that system and developing an adaptive strategy to put pressure on these levers to achieve your goals. We hope this guide will help you set up an approach for your campaigning and organising work that can analyze the different systems in play, not just the concrete issue your campaign or organisation seeks to address.

خلاصه

تفکر سیستمی به مبارزان و سازمان‌دهندگان یک رویکرد کلی و مجموعه‌ای از ابزارها برای درک مشکلات ریشه‌ای که روی آن‌ها کار می‌کنیم و تعامل استراتژیک‌تر با سیستم‌های پیچیده‌ای که در آن‌ها کار می‌کنیم، ارائه می‌کند.

در این راهنما، ما به عملکرد سیستم‌ها به‌عنوان یک رویکرد فراگیر نگاه می‌کنیم که می تواند به کمپین ها و استراتژی های سازماندهی ما کمک کند تا در تغییر سیستم ها موثرتر باشند. این رویکرد مبتنی بر برخی اصول کلیدی از جمله تمرکز بر روابط و الگوها، تلاش برای باز کردن نیروهای تغییر، اعمال فشار بر “نقاط اهرمی”، برنامه ریزی برای انطباق و درگیر کردن دیدگاه های متعدد است. ما همچنین از طریق یک فرآیند گسترده و انعطاف‌پذیر می‌گذریم که می‌توان از آن برای متمرکز کردن کمپین‌ها و استراتژی‌های سازمان‌دهی بر روی ایجاد تغییرات سیستمی استفاده کرد. این امر با ایجاد درک درستی از سیستمی که می‌خواهید تغییر دهید، شناسایی اهرم‌های تغییر در آن سیستم و ایجاد یک استراتژی تطبیقی ​​برای اعمال فشار بر این اهرم‌ها برای رسیدن به اهدافتان به دست می‌آید. امیدواریم این راهنما به شما کمک کند تا رویکردی را برای کار کمپین و سازماندهی خود تنظیم کنید که بتواند سیستم های مختلف موجود را تجزیه و تحلیل کند، نه فقط موضوع مشخصی که کمپین یا سازمان شما به دنبال آن است.

این راهنما با یک راهنمای خواهر در نقشه‌برداری سیستم برای طراحی کمپین که نحوه به کارگیری برخی ابزارهای تفکر سیستمی خاص برای توسعه کمپین‌ها را بررسی می‌کند.

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