Somalia and transitional justice
I just returned from Nairobi where I was working with a wonderful team of Somali researchers from the Somali Public Agenda (https://somalipublicagenda.org) where I'm a design fellow.
We met for several days where I had lad them through a process of evidence-based strategic design on the topic of transitional justice. They had recently returned from a 14 day research trip to the Somali city of Galkayo. Our task was to turn their workshop and interview transcripts into a transitional justice programme for region of some 250,000 people.
I lead them through a process of research review, cluster analysis of key concepts to isolate "design anchors" of things we'd need to consider in our final plan, goal setting, stakeholder analysis, competing actor interests, identifying the design space (the place where action is possible but the solution remains uncertain), design proposition building, proposition testing, Objective adoption, experience design (for the community), activity design (of what we'd need to do to give the community that experience), Confidence Analysis (how sure are we about things), and risk analysis including conflict sensitivity and gender-sensitivity.
We all think it went rather well!
Nairobi is very, very far away because Africa is REALLY BIG. But I'm now back, rested, and while helping SPA put together their design blueprint, I will be turning my mind back to the edits of my forthcoming novel, THE CURSE OF PIETRO HOUDINI which is forthcoming from Transworld (Penguin Random House) in the UK, and Avid Reader Press at Simon and Schuster in the U.S.
I hope everyone has read HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK of which I am immensely proud and was a NYT Best Mystery of 2021 and a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards.
(Sorry for any typos … it's a blog and I'm a bit knackered as the Brits say).
— Derek
We met for several days where I had lad them through a process of evidence-based strategic design on the topic of transitional justice. They had recently returned from a 14 day research trip to the Somali city of Galkayo. Our task was to turn their workshop and interview transcripts into a transitional justice programme for region of some 250,000 people.
I lead them through a process of research review, cluster analysis of key concepts to isolate "design anchors" of things we'd need to consider in our final plan, goal setting, stakeholder analysis, competing actor interests, identifying the design space (the place where action is possible but the solution remains uncertain), design proposition building, proposition testing, Objective adoption, experience design (for the community), activity design (of what we'd need to do to give the community that experience), Confidence Analysis (how sure are we about things), and risk analysis including conflict sensitivity and gender-sensitivity.
We all think it went rather well!
Nairobi is very, very far away because Africa is REALLY BIG. But I'm now back, rested, and while helping SPA put together their design blueprint, I will be turning my mind back to the edits of my forthcoming novel, THE CURSE OF PIETRO HOUDINI which is forthcoming from Transworld (Penguin Random House) in the UK, and Avid Reader Press at Simon and Schuster in the U.S.
I hope everyone has read HOW TO FIND YOUR WAY IN THE DARK of which I am immensely proud and was a NYT Best Mystery of 2021 and a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards.
(Sorry for any typos … it's a blog and I'm a bit knackered as the Brits say).
— Derek
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Jim
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Jan 17, 2023 05:30AM
Hi Derek. Just a quick note to say that I read "How To Find Your Way In the Dark" and loved it! Congratulations of being a Finalist. It's a much deserved honor. And I'm certainly looking forward to "The Curse of Pietro Houdini." You are a favorite author of mine. Keep up the great work!
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