Decriminalization · Advocacy
Building the Cultural Foundation Toolkit
Strategies for advocates to focus efforts on social and cultural change-makers, rather than direct policy lobbying alone.
Decriminalization campaigns aim at parliaments and courts, because that is where the law is. This toolkit makes the case for the slower target underneath: the social and cultural conditions that decide whether a law, once changed, actually holds.
It sets out strategies for working with the people who move public opinion rather than the people who draft statutes — and for doing that work alongside legal reform, not after it.
What you can do with it
- Identify the cultural change-makers who shape opinion in your own context
- Plan advocacy that runs alongside legal reform rather than waiting on it
- Build the public support a legal win needs in order to survive
