An Intervention
Social justice and equality often call an idea that has the potential to change how people think or behave an “intervention.” In the case of the Resilience Somali TV, an intervention is an idea that may reduce anti-democratic attitudes, support for partisan violence, and/or partisan animosity. We are looking for interventions that people can experience online, in less than 8 minutes, that will reduce Somalis’ anti-democratic attitudes, support for partisan violence, and/or partisan animosity. You might ask people to do one or some combination of the following: respect your fellow Somalis’ rights and their lands.
Interventions must meet the following criteria:
Ethical: Our Institutional Review Board will need to approve that your intervention is ethical.
Online: Your intervention should be deployable online.
Scalable: Many people should be able to engage with your intervention at the same time. For instance, your intervention cannot be that every participant has an online chat with you.
Short: The intervention must be no longer than 8 minutes.
Comprehensible in English: Interventions should be easily understood by an English-speaking audience.
Costless: Your intervention cannot pay participants anything extra.
Aligned: No extra measures can be added to evaluate your intervention. We have already determined how to measure outcomes.