TALKING GLOBAL ISSUES WITH CONGRESS

Reframing U.S. Global Engagement Project
The Senate's failure to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which enjoyed broad bipartisan support, illustrates the increasingly frequent problems that proponents of cooperative U.S. engagement in the international system have in making their case on Capitol Hill. 

In light of this, Citizens for Global Solutions, with support from the Connect US Fund, coordinated an effort to develop a new framework for talking about global issues with Congress.  By bringing together diverse actors to discuss the current problems they face in communicating with Congress about international issues, the Reframing U.S. Global Engagement project developed a new set of common frames for NGOs and activists.

+ CLICK HERE to read final messaging memo, Talking with Congress. (PDF)

+ CLICK HERE to view the PowerPoint presentation, developed by Purnima Chawla of the Center for Nonprofit Strategies, that presents the results of our survey research. (PPT)

+ CLICK HERE to read the report on in-depth interviews with Congressional staff. (PDF)

Updated January 12, 2006

+ MESSAGING MEMO (PDF)

+ SURVEY RESEARCH
   RESULTS (PPT)

+ IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW
   RESULTS (PDF)

+ ABOUT THE PROJECT (HTML)