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• When strategizing about follow-up action: Are relevant stakeholders
explicitly mapped and analysed in terms of their power and interest
in implementing or opposing a change recommended by the NPM?30
• Do NPMs engage explicitly and systematically in networking and
cooperation with other actors in order to enhance implementation
of their recommendations?
• How do external actors, especially civil society, view the cooperation
with the NPM and how could it be improved?
• In which way do NPMs include relevant skills in training programmes
for monitors?
Active listening for understanding the situation and perspectives
of others (beyond training of interviewing persons deprived of
liberty).
Establishing good/professional communication with all groups/
stakeholders relevant to monitoring.
Acting with keen appreciation of the dignity of all stakeholders,
including staff.
2.6. Look at the “bottom of the iceberg” and understand underlying
cultural patterns
Meaning of the principle - the basic idea
With a view to obtaining ‘the whole picture’ a systemic approach pays
particular attention to what “cannot be seen”. This is commonly illustrated
with the iceberg metaphor: while we focus on the ten percent above the
water – mostly events and outcomes – it is important to take into account
the 90 percent below the surface, the bottom of the iceberg. For a deeper
insight into the application of the iceberg model to monitoring of prison
violence (see in this series, the Handbook on Monitoring Prison Violence).
30. See BIM/HRIC, 99-101.
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