Approach

PLEDJ integrates academic expertise and best practices developed with communities to improve the lives of indigenous and marginalized people in the Global South, particularly North America and WANA.

Mindset Liberation Model

Decolonizing Social and Policy Change

PLEDJ believes that sustainable social justice is achieved when peoples' voices are heard, their strengths are recognized, their needs are self-determined, and they are fully engaged in community work.

This is exemplified through Dr. Amal Elsana’s Mindset Liberation Approach. This is a new way to localize rights-based development that incorporates the principles of decolonization, mindset liberation, and knowledge sharing. It provides conceptually grounded and practical ways to understand conflicted contexts, unify and link diverse voices and ideas, change defeated and victimized mindsets, and mobilize people's existing and respected strengths and traditional cultures. From this position of deep understanding and strength, it is possible to organize, operationalize, and act to change peoples' inequalities in a steady, sustainable, and self-determined way.

Process

3 Fields of Activity

There is no one-size-fits-all way to social change – every people and place have their unique characteristics and characters. PLEDJ engages with different levels of society using a mix of approaches – from practices skills such as participate-led projects, to skills training in facilitation, to collaborative research – to offer the best hopes for a positive, lasting impact in for Global South communities throughout the world.

PRACTICE

We engage in hands-on, on-the-ground activities that create participant-led and implemented projects that amplify Global South leadership and social change

LEARNING

We develop materials and innovative skill training to promote leadership, dialogues education, foster peer exchange to people grappling with deep-rooted conflicts and polarization

RESEARCH

We conduct cutting-edge research that enables us to document and analyse the drivers of Global South social justice and conflict to collaborate on solutions

Objectives

Creating justice and peace by networking globally indigenous and marginalized communities and providing opportunities to foster people-to-people relationships across local, national and international levels.
Building the educational and training capacity of individuals and local leaders to strengthen the link between academic institutions, civil society organizations, and communities.
Promoting diverse voices, perspectives, and practices in institutional decision making and policy changes.