Collaborative Structural Change

Collaborative Structural Change Collaborative Structural Change (CSC) CSC is a registered not-for-profit incorporated company with headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Collaborative Social Change (CSC) is a transnational network of practitioners and scholars working on peace and conflict issues in highly diverse political and social contexts. Our core mandate is to address and prevent diverse forms of direct, structural, and cultural violence using a series of grounded and participatory approaches to research and practice. Using these methods, CSC provides a ran

ge of services to our partners including research and documentation, policy development and analysis, facilitating dialogue, mediation, strategic advocacy, multi-level diplomacy, and program design and implementation, among others. Our representatives are based in more than twelve major cities around the world including but not limited to Kampala, London, New York, and Ottawa. Our dynamic community provides partners with experience applying multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to study and practice in international relations, international law, human rights, political science, sociology, psychology, transitional justice, peacebuilding, international diplomacy, area studies, and cultural studies. We tap into this multi-faceted network to mobilize cross-border collaboration to address conflict-related issues and violence in a particular locale or to addresses trends and patterns of violence across contexts by promoting peace-inducing change transnationally.

Collaborative Structural Change is launching the second edition of Radical Review and inviting submissions from IR schol...
06/01/2026

Collaborative Structural Change is launching the second edition of Radical Review and inviting submissions from IR scholars and others engaged with global governance issues.

This edition asks a simple but important question: What would global governance look like if communities had a greater voice in shaping it?

We welcome abstracts exploring how people experience global governance in everyday life, what communities want from global institutions, and how accountability and legitimacy can be reimagined from the ground up.

đź“ť Abstracts: Up to 500 words
đź“… Deadline: 1 July 2026
đź“© Submit to: [email protected]

Help us rethink global order from local perspectives.

Founding Members Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian, and Yatana Yamahata co-authored “Redesigning Global Governance from Below,” ...
06/01/2026

Founding Members Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian, and Yatana Yamahata co-authored “Redesigning Global Governance from Below,” which calls on International Relations (IR) scholars to rethink global governance through participatory, community-driven approaches rather than top-down institutional models. The article argues that IR should help amplify local voices, support democratic dialogue, and document alternative visions of global order to create more inclusive, accountable, and just forms of governance for the future.

You can read the full article here:

E-International Relations: https://lnkd.in/gPWzc6uz

Food for Change (Substack): https://lnkd.in/gwFGThaM

CSC is very proud to promote this forthcoming edited volume, which brings together interdisciplinary and lived perspecti...
06/01/2026

CSC is very proud to promote this forthcoming edited volume, which brings together interdisciplinary and lived perspectives on the intergenerational impacts of genocide and mass atrocities. At its core is a commitment to recognizing survivors and their descendants not merely as subjects of study, but as essential producers of knowledge whose experiences deepen understanding and strengthen scholarship, education, advocacy, healing, and atrocity-prevention practice.

Among the global network of brilliant knowledge producers who contributed to this volume, representatives of CSC made significant contributions. The volume was co-edited by CSC Founding Member Sarah Seiselmyer-Snyder and CSC Founder Saghar Shahidi-Birjandian. Saghar and Sarah also co-authored the Introduction. “Centering the Positionality of Intergenerational Survivors Producing Knowledge on Atrocity Violence” and Conclusion, “Positionality as Power: The Unique Epistemic Contribution of Intergenerational Survivor-Scholars”, offering original contributions to discussions of intergenerational survivorship and the role of knowledge producers. CSC Founding Member Yatana Yamahata co-authored a substantive chapter with Saghar titled “Living with Hypocrisy in Genocide Studies and Atrocity Prevention.” Sarah also co-authored an interview with Brenda Wanjiru, “From the Mother's Milk: Am I an Intergenerational Survivor of Genocide?” In addition, CSC roster member Mike Brand contributed a chapter entitled “From Gaza to Darfur: Preventing Mass Atrocities Should Never Be Controversial,” while Tawheed Reza Noor authored “Echoes of Trauma in Knowledge Production: Struggling for Recognition of Bangladesh’s 1971 Genocide.”

We hope this work helps create space for more honest dialogue, critical reflection, and meaningful engagement for current and future generations of scholars, practitioners, survivors, and advocates.

The book is now available for pre-order:

Routledge: https://lnkd.in/g3eYrJ6s

Amazon: https://lnkd.in/gSreyic4

Barnes & Noble: https://lnkd.in/gK2gQs6P

As seen in the case of Iran, when ex*****ons occur within closed and repressive systems, TWO different but equally impor...
05/08/2026

As seen in the case of Iran, when ex*****ons occur within closed and repressive systems, TWO different but equally important ecosystems work to halt and prevent such atrocities.

Network-Based Alert Systems

These are rapid-response networks built on evidence, trust, relationships, and real-time communication between families, lawyers, activists, diaspora communities, former prisoners, and people on the ground.

They often surface urgent cases during:
• Internet shutdowns
• Media blackouts
• Periods of state intimidation

Examples include:
• HumanInChain
• HRANA (Human Rights Activists News Agency)
• Hengaw Organization for Human Rights
• Iran Human Rights Monitor

Institutional Human Rights Organizations

These organizations focus on rigorous verification, legal analysis, systematic documentation, and international accountability.

Examples include:
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI)
• Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)
• Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM)

The distinction matters.

Networks provide speed and early warning.
Institutions provide verification, credibility, and international leverage.

In environments shaped by internet shutdowns, state-controlled narratives, and restricted access to information, both are essential to documenting abuses, preventing ex*****ons, and building global pressure to halt atrocities.

*****onsInIran *****ons

🚨 IMMINENT RISK: Pakhshan AziziPakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish Iranian Activist, is facing ex*****on in Iran.According to Amne...
04/27/2026

🚨 IMMINENT RISK: Pakhshan Azizi

Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish Iranian Activist, is facing ex*****on in Iran.

According to Amnesty International:

đź’” Arrested in 2023
đź’” Solitary confinement
đź’” Denied fair trial
đź’” Coercive interrogation
đź’” Death sentence upheld

⚠️ She is now at imminent risk of ex*****on

📢 Speaking out matters.

Her conviction is linked to peaceful humanitarian work.

⚠️ Ex*****on could happen at any time.

đź”— Amnesty source:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/9035/2025/en/

📢 Awareness can help save lives.

*****onsInIran

Payvand Naeimi, a young Baha’i political prisoner, is at imminent risk of ex*****on by state authorities in Iran. Report...
04/21/2026

Payvand Naeimi, a young Baha’i political prisoner, is at imminent risk of ex*****on by state authorities in Iran.

Reports indicate:
• Torture and mock ex*****ons
• Forced confessions
• Charges inconsistent with known timelines

What you can do:
• Share his name
• Share his story (links to resources in comments)
• Engage publicly using the hashtag *****onsInIran

This is something we can all do—every day.Ex*****ons in Iran are happening without the world watching.We are changing th...
04/21/2026

This is something we can all do—every day.
Ex*****ons in Iran are happening without the world watching.

We are changing that.

How?
By using *****onsInIran everywhere:
• On your posts
• In comments
• When sharing content
• Even in everyday updates

Why?
Because repetition builds visibility.
And visibility creates pressure.
One post helps.

Daily action builds a system.

04/21/2026

Social work is often seen as a force for good, but what happens when we don’t examine the structures we’re part of every day?

In our follow-up video from CSC's Mass Atrocities Prevention Career Lab, a seasoned social worker, Teanna James, reflects on how three everyday actions - connection, communication, and collaboration - can challenge conditions that allow atrocity violence to emerge.

With awareness, responsibility, and the power of small, intentional choices, everyone can channel these core elements of social work across contexts to prevent violence at all levels.

Because prevention doesn’t start at the global level, it starts with how we show up for one another every single day.

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Teanna James Collaborative Structural Change

02/06/2026

Well-meaning allies across the global often ask: “What can we do to support Iranians in Iran?”

This slide deck breaks down concrete ways allies can help, from language and media framing, to pressuring international institutions, protecting internet access, supporting human rights documentation, and strengthening diaspora unity.

Thank you for supporting Iranians fighting for freedom, justice, and revolutionary change!
đź“Ś Please read, share, and use these resources responsibly.

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Well-meaning allies across the global often ask: “What can we do to support Iranians in Iran?”This slide deck breaks dow...
02/06/2026

Well-meaning allies across the global often ask: “What can we do to support Iranians in Iran?”

This slide deck breaks down concrete ways allies can help, from language and media framing, to pressuring international institutions, protecting internet access, supporting human rights documentation, and strengthening diaspora unity.

THANK YOU FOR STANDING WITH THE PEOPLE OF IRAN!

đź“Ś Please read, share, and use these resources to amplify Iranians fighting for peace, justice, and freedom in Iran and across the world.

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