-14 e.g. by APT’s insistence on seeing “visits to places of detention … (as) the first step of a holistic preventive strategy (which includes the analysis of) … the legal framework, public policies, and institutions and actors involved.”18 In order to do so, it helps to specifically consider the different dimensions (or “zoom levels” if you will) which are relevant for the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty and the conditions of detention:19 • The concrete functioning and management of the respective place of detention • The higher organisational/institutional arrangement, e.g. the ministry, the central prison administration • Law • Public policies, e.g. with regard to public security • Public awareness. Questions for monitors • • How clear are the dimensions in which change needs to take place? Are they clearly articulated in the monitor’s strategy for change? • How much time is spent working on the different dimensions to achieve the desired change? • What dimension is addressed least? Why? • In particular, how are the dimensions of public awareness and public policies worked on? • How can neglected dimensions be strengthened in a strategic approach? 2.3. See relations and connections instead of singular events/actors Meaning of the principle - the basic idea While the previous principle asks us to ‘look at the big picture’, this principle directs us to explicitly focus on relationships and connections instead of singular events and actors. The fundamental idea of systems thinking is that everything is interconnected: Events, actors, structures 18. APT/IIHR, 234. 19. See BIM/HRIC, 93, where we have discussed these dimensions/levels as part of a systematic change perspective to NPM follow-up actions.