How to Make a Difference: The Definitive Guide from the World's Most Effective Activists - Hardcover

Kate Robertson; Ella Robertson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788401468 ISBN 13: 9781788401463

Publisher: Cassell, 2019

Synopsis

"An exceptionally relevant book for this age of activism." Bob Geldof

With a foreword by Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the UN (1997-2006).

How to Make a Difference is a practical roadmap to modern day activism created by the powerful and imaginative minds behind the world's biggest campaigns including Colin Kaepernick, Emma Watson, Sir Bob Geldof, Fatima Bhutto, Black Lives Matter, Doutzen Kroes, Yeonmi Park, Terry Crews, Cher, Matt Damon, Paul Polman and Gina Miller; collectively they combine the latest models of thinking, their real life experiences, radical techniques and effective advice in order to help incentivize everyone and anyone who has ever wondered, how can I help?

From How to Change the Law, How to Protest, How to Use Social Media Effectively, How to End a Problem Forever and How to Change a Big Organization, this book educates as much as it encourages and informs us all to see the world as something that can and must be changed.

This book will help you find an active role in positive, necessary activism and meaningful change on every scale across the globe. The only book to pool together the biggest names in activism and showcase how they have used their voices, their networks and their abilities to change the world around us.

How to Make a Difference speaks to a generation who are switching selfie-sticks for protest placards and will showcase how everyone has the ability to be the change they want to see in the world.

If not now, when?
If not you, who?

Perfect for fans of This Is Not a Drill, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference and There Is No Planet B.

About this title

About the Author

Kate Robertson (Co-Founder of One Young World) and Ella Robertson (Managing Director of One Young World) are the authors of this book.

Every year One Young World convenes thousands of activists to work together and accelerate change. Its annual Summit brings together the most talented young leaders from across 196 countries to tackle the globe's most pressing issues, from climate change to conflict resolution.

From the Back Cover

How to Make a Difference is a practical roadmap to modern day activism created by the powerful and imaginative minds behind the world's biggest campaigns including Colin Kaepernick, Emma Watson, Sir Bob Geldof, Fatima Bhutto, Black Lives Matter, Cher, Matt Damon, Paul Polman and Gina Miller; collectively they combine the latest models of thinking, their real life experiences, radical techniques and effective advice in order to help incentivize everyone and anyone who has ever wondered, how can I help?

From How to Change the Law, How to Protest, How to Use Social Media Effectively, How to End a Problem Forever and How to Change a Big Organization, this book educates as much as it encourages and informs us all to see the world as something that can and must be changed.

This book will help you find an active role in positive, necessary activism and meaningful change on every scale across the globe. The only book to pool together the biggest names in activism and showcase how they have used their voices, their networks and their abilities to change the world around us.

How to Make a Difference speaks to a generation who are switching selfie-sticks for protest placards and will showcase how everyone has the ability to be the change they want to see in the world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cassell
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788401468
• ISBN 13: 9781788401463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256