Interpersonal communication formed the centrepiece of this oral history initiative. Each project involved a training workshop for interviewers, followed by testimony collection in the field, transcription of the tape-recorded interviews in the language of interview and, later, translation into English as well. Interviewers were members of the displaced communities or fieldworkers working and living with the resettled. A range of community and national activities, in local and national languages, were developed to expose people to the testimonies. These activities included policy roundtable meetings, community debates, and press conferences.

The internet is being used to bring these stories to a wider audience. An online archive of the resettlement testimonies in English is in the works, and some of the publications that emerged from the testimonies are available on the Tales of Resettlement website.

To illustrate how both of these strategies are being used, part of this initiative has involved Panos collaborating with community-based environmental, cultural, and development organisations to gather and communicate the experiences of men and women who live in mountain regions around the world. Local people in these communities have participated as both interviewers and narrators, and their stories are shared in an online archive that presents both summaries and full transcripts of these testimonies, and illustrates other forms of research into sustainable mountain development. Local partners are also working at local and regional levels on a variety of activities based around the testimonies, including exhibitions, local language booklets, radio programmes, and roundtable meetings.

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