Social mobilization is an important tool for implementing human development policies.
The influence of minorities on political decision-making and implementation requires three instruments of influence:
- lobbyism;
- social mobilization;
- elections.
Individually, these instruments do not protect the rights and interests of minorities. Social mobilization is the main one of them, because without providing solidarity action is impossible:
- to develop common community demands for further lobbying or promotion at election time;
- Ensure pressure on decision-making bodies to successfully lobby for the necessary regulations;
- provide a process of self-organization to solve the socio-economic problems of a given social group;
- increase intragroup social capital, which is the basis for solidarity and self-organization.
Social mobilization is a step-by-step process of involving representatives of linguistic minorities in socially significant activities. This can include volunteering within the “Clean City“ project , training within the “School of Solidarity“, assistance with sociological surveys within the activities of the “International Analytical Center“, participation in the “Parallel Worlds” project, picketing or demonstrations to defend the rights of the Russian-speaking minority, and so on. The main thing is that any experience of social mobilization should be recorded in the general “piggy bank of experience” of the institutional memory of the social group, both in social networks and through other information and ideological tools.