The Proof Behind Community Constructing

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To assist make this data extra accessible to a variety of audiences, we’re spotlighting one intervention every month by way of a collection of social media and weblog posts. This month we’re specializing in the proof round community constructing.

Intervention Highlight #7: Community Constructing

What is that this intervention?

This class refers to constructing or strengthening networks, alliances, and coalitions inside animal advocacy. Techniques embody organizing occasions and conferences to facilitate collaboration and information sharing and the event of strategic partnerships with different organizations to reinforce collective affect. Networking initiatives for veg*ns and advocates are additionally used to enhance motivation, wellbeing, and retention.

Community constructing is a broad intervention class. In an effort to set up the proof systematically, we recognized the three foremost ranges at which community constructing can happen:

1. Interpersonal, which refers to constructing private connections inside veg*n and activist networks. Anticipated outcomes embody improved retention of veg*ns and advocates, lowered burnout, stronger identification with the motion, and elevated motivation for sustained engagement.
2. Interorganizational, which refers to collaborating and constructing coalitions with different animal advocacy organizations. Anticipated outcomes embody improved coordination and lowered duplication of effort, more practical useful resource sharing, leading to better collective affect than organizations might obtain independently.
3. Intermovement, which refers to alliances between totally different social actions, comparable to environmental and animal advocacy teams. Anticipated outcomes embody elevated political leverage, entry to new audiences and sources, and coverage affect that might not be achievable by the animal advocacy motion alone.

These interventions general intention to enhance the capability and effectiveness of the motion, and thereby the tempo and scale at which affect for animals may be achieved.

What’s our general evaluation of this intervention? How assured are we on this evaluation?

• Our analysis signifies that there’s at present a small proof base relating to community constructing relative to different animal advocacy interventions. Most proof we discovered consists of qualitative interview research, self-report surveys, and case research in regards to the experiences of veg*n and advocate communities (on the interpersonal stage) and the processes of coalition formation and sustainability in different social actions (on the interorganizational and intermovement ranges). We aren’t conscious of any proof that instantly demonstrates the affect of community constructing on outcomes for animals.
• Power of proof is low to average; the animal-advocacy-specific analysis depends on small, largely demographically homogeneous samples (predominantly from the U.Ok., U.S., and Canada), makes use of self-reported and descriptive knowledge, and lacks causal attribution or longitudinal follow-up. The literature about broader social actions provides helpful theoretical frameworks and process-level insights, however is itself largely qualitative and case-study primarily based, and doesn’t resolve the query of whether or not community constructing produces affect past the sum of what particular person actors might obtain alone.
• Due to this fact, our confidence in our general evaluation is at present low to average relative to different interventions.
• The accessible proof means that community constructing may be a promising intervention due to the constant (though methodologically restricted) discovering that interpersonal networking can help advocate retention and reduces burnout—each of that are vital issues within the motion—and due to the sturdy theoretical logic mannequin for interorganizational and intermovement collaboration enhancing collective affect. Nonetheless, direct proof for precise downstream affect on animals is missing, and there are documented dangers of community constructing backfiring, e.g., by way of discrimination and harassment, energy imbalances, or coalition collapse.
• We anticipate the effectiveness of this intervention to differ considerably relying on the context, the extent of community constructing, and the method taken. We imagine this intervention is probably going stronger when:
  • Interpersonal networking is paired with tangible subsequent steps, comparable to follow-up teams, meetups, or actions that channel new connections into ongoing engagement, and when consideration is paid to battle decision capability and relationship upkeep, not simply preliminary connection.
  • Interorganizational networks embody “bridge builders,” which have connections throughout a number of organizations that share clear priorities and construct organizational belief by way of shared norms and practices, somewhat than relying on a small variety of private relationships.
  • Intermovement coalitions share a concrete coverage aim or acute risk and have decentralized and versatile management, sturdy shared norms, and both pre-existing ties or a well-connected coalition dealer.
  • Coalitions are structured with a transparent division of labor between companions, comparable to separating motion constructing and recruitment from campaigning, as seen in some animal advocacy coalitions.
• Conversely, the intervention is probably going weaker—or might have unintended unfavorable penalties—when:
  • Networking areas enable discrimination, harassment, or energy imbalances that make it tough for some people to totally take part.
  • Organizational networks lack clear priorities, sustained dedication, trusted connections, and/or enough platforms during which to share information.
  • There are giant useful resource or energy asymmetries between coalition companions, significantly in World North-South collaborations, the place extra highly effective organizations threat dominating framing and technique on the expense of much less highly effective companions’ priorities.
  • Intermotion coalitions require animal advocates to undertake frames that considerably de-emphasize animal struggling (e.g., main solely with environmental or public well being messaging), which can undermine inner cohesion, dilute core targets, and even trigger extra animal struggling—e.g., by way of the small animal substitute drawback.
• Community constructing can also be steadily utilized in tandem with interventions comparable to company campaigns, authorities outreach, and talent constructing, so, for context, we suggest additionally studying the proof critiques for these interventions. Please word that effectiveness seemingly differs relying on the mixture of interventions.
• As a result of excessive potential of community constructing as a power multiplier for different interventions, and the present shortage of proof, future analysis may very well be significantly precious. We predict future analysis ought to prioritize:
  • Quantitative and longitudinal research measuring the affect of networking occasions and coalition participation on advocate retention, coordinated outcomes, and, the place potential, downstream affect for animals.
  • Price-effectiveness analyses of networking interventions, comparable to conferences and coalition-building initiatives.
  • Research of community constructing in LMICs and non-English-speaking contexts, the place the proof base is particularly skinny and the dynamics might differ considerably.
  • Investigation of how ideological range inside the animal motion (e.g., welfare v. rights-based approaches) impacts the feasibility and effectiveness of coalition constructing.
  • Analysis that explicitly isolates the contribution of coalition buildings to marketing campaign outcomes, somewhat than attributing wins solely to particular person organizations.
  • Analysis into the situations underneath which networking and coalition participation enhance, somewhat than scale back, retention and effectiveness, comparable to community designs that mitigate dangers comparable to energy imbalances and discrimination.

In Depth

What does the analysis say about how efficient this intervention is?

Interpersonal community constructing

The accessible analysis that’s particular to animal advocacy largely focuses on networks amongst veg*ns, and to a lesser extent networks amongst animal advocates. Analysis typically means that social networks can enhance retention and motivation, however that is largely primarily based on descriptive and qualitative knowledge.

• A examine primarily based on 20 semi-structured interviews on the U.Ok. competition Vegan Campout explored how networking amongst vegans mitigates activist burnout and strengthens their vegan identification. Outcomes indicated enhanced psychological connections and elevated motivation for activism after the occasion.¹
• In step with that, an proof overview on the social and psychological limitations to sustained veganism means that to efficiently obtain dietary change, meat avoidance must be consolidated into a brand new identification as a vegan or vegetarian. Some reviewed research recommend that supportive veg*n buddies or membership in a veg*n group might assist keep the dietary change in the long run.²
• The potential to scale back burnout and enhance identification could also be vital not simply to stop vegan recidivism, but in addition to stop animal advocates from exiting the motion. A Faunalytics survey of 161 present or former advocates recognized burnout as one of many prime three causes cited for leaving the motion, and—converseley—identification with different advocates as a key determinant for present paid advocates’ intentions to remain within the motion. For volunteers, identification with different advocates was the second-most necessary determinant of intentions to remain.³
• A Pax Fauna examine primarily based on interviews with 38 animal rights organizers within the U.S. discovered that activists’ low factors of their activism usually revolve round battle with fellow advocates. The report due to this fact recommends spending sources on constructing sturdy relationships between activists that may endure battle.⁴
• These findings are according to a broader physique of analysis from social motion research—although not particular to animal advocacy—that identifies interpersonal belief as a key mechanism underlying the advantages of activist networks.
  • Latest social motion analysis means that belief isn’t just a predictor of participating in social actions and collective motion, however can be generated quickly by way of motion itself, making a reinforcing cycle.⁵
  • Occasions comparable to vegan festivals or advocacy conferences might help retention partially as a result of they generate belief between contributors, which the social motion literature suggests can strengthen dedication to sustained collective motion.⁶
  • Case research from the social actions area additionally illustrate particular methods during which belief can break inside activist networks: coalitions rely too closely on a single trusted particular person, member organizations really feel their priorities are being subordinated to the group’s,⁷ or communication failures compounding current variations.⁸ This echoes the Pax Fauna discovering that battle between advocates is a serious driver of disengagement, and means that the high quality of relationships inside networks—not simply their existence—is what determines whether or not networking helps or undermines retention.

Interorganizational community constructing

The concept that collaboration between organizations will increase joint affect has a powerful logic mannequin. Nonetheless, analysis that truly measures outcomes is sparse. As an alternative, the literature—largely from exterior animal advocacy—is commonly theoretical or focuses on the processes of coalition constructing.

• A overview of proof on community constructing to enhance capability in nonprofits means that collaborative efforts might allow nonprofits to unravel complicated issues extra effectively; unfold progressive approaches; and leverage shared sources to reinforce organizational growth, infrastructure, and affect.⁹

• “Social Motion Ecology” as a theoretical framework helps the logic mannequin of coalition constructing. This framework posits that collaboration and coordination between organizations are integral to motion success, as totally different approaches—on the ranges of fixing people, altering establishments, and selling alternate options—can mutually reinforce and help one another.¹⁰
  • Civil society counterstrategies to tobacco trade interference present an instance of this dynamic: A scoping overview discovered that advocates persistently mixed a number of methods in a complementary method. For instance, worldwide organizations offered proof and funding, whereas home advocates lobbied legislators and filed authorized complaints, and coalition companions uncovered trade conduct by way of media whereas concurrently accessing decision-makers instantly.¹¹
  • A historic case examine of the U.S. anti-smoking motion illustrates an analogous dynamic at scale: A variety of organizations—together with main well being organizations, grassroots teams, and issue-specific coalitions—attacked the tobacco trade concurrently, utilizing analysis, public engagement, laws, and litigation. The authors word that whereas there’s little indication that the broad vary of oppositional forces strategically coordinated their efforts, the sustained multi-front strain contributed to a major transformation of the social and regulatory standing of tobacco within the U.S. They suggest that animal advocates be much more intentional about constructing coalitions and creating collaborative methods throughout teams and concern areas.¹²
  • Equally, a Pax Fauna article means that animal advocates are more practical if concurrently utilizing inside and out of doors methods. Inside activists insert themselves into positions of affect in current establishments and formal change, comparable to by way of operating for workplace or collaborating with trade, whereas exterior activists construct strain exterior of the dominant establishments, comparable to by way of protests or open rescues. Importantly, inside activists can then seize upon this strain to strengthen or make calls for of the establishments. As such, communication between advocates throughout the spectrum is crucial to coordinate efforts.¹³
  • Collaboration of extra radical and extra average advocates may be strategically helpful by way of the radical flank impact: One examine discovered that consciousness of Simply Cease Oil’s radical ways improved help for, and identification with, extra average local weather teams.¹⁴
• Two critiques of the social motion literature provide perception into the processes that form whether or not interorganizational coalitions type and persist over time. The components they determine embody pre-existing social ties between organizations, ideological and cultural compatibility, the presence of shared threats or political alternatives, and adequate sources to spend money on collaboration. For coalition long-term stability, belief and dedication rising by way of repeated interactions and the standard of communication between companions are key components.¹⁵
• To one of the best of our information, there isn’t any analysis instantly testing whether or not alliances between organizations, or between inside and out of doors activists, can obtain affect past the sum of their particular person impacts. This proof hole is properly documented in social motion research. Two main literature critiques of coalition analysis throughout social actions attain the identical conclusion, noting that analysis on coalition outcomes stays the least-developed a part of the sphere and calling for extra analysis on how coalitions translate their potential benefits into measurable outcomes.¹⁶ The identical could also be true for affect measurement inside animal advocacy: Catalina López from Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) argues that even the place coalitions have been clearly concerned in creating large-scale change, such because the Open Wing Alliance’s cage-free wins for egg-laying hens, these are usually analyzed as particular person company marketing campaign wins, with the distinctive contribution of the coalition being neglected.¹⁷
• Different motion examples of coalition work embody the three-way grassroots coalition between the Worldwide Council for Animal Welfare (ICAW), Animal Activism Collective (AAC) and the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Commerce (CAFT) to attain company commitments and their implementation. The coalition companions tackle totally different roles, with AAC recruiting and coaching new activists who’re then plugged into the campaigning organizations, ICAW and CAFT.¹⁸ The Aquatic Animal Alliance, spearheaded by ALI, is one other instance: In 2025, 168 members signed a joint letter to the federal government, advocating for divestment from octopus farming analysis, and eliciting a public response from the Fisheries Minister.¹⁹

Intermovement community constructing

Coalition constructing between totally different actions is much more understudied in comparison with intra-movement collaboration.²⁰ Once more, there’s hardly any analysis testing how efficient coalitions are. Nonetheless, current scoping research in Southeast Asia and different areas are starting to make clear how they type and what components help or constrain them.

• Social motion literature theorizes some particular advantages of various coalitions past pooling sources. A literature overview means that coalitions involving non-obvious allies—i.e., teams not usually related to a trigger might power audiences and marketing campaign targets to take the motion extra critically as a result of the involvement of sudden supporters alerts broad public backing. Numerous management coalitions may additionally allow extra artistic technique and drawback fixing due to the various views, experiences, and tactical abilities the coalition members deliver. Smaller and fewer highly effective actions can search strategic alliances with extra highly effective actions to widen their attain and profit from the leverage and infrastructure of the extra highly effective motion.²¹ This can be the case, for instance, the place animal advocates construct coalitions with the local weather motion.
• The broader social motion literature finds that coalitions of every kind are most probably to type in response to shared political threats or alternatives.²² This dynamic may be particularly related for intermovement coalitions, the place teams usually lack pre-existing ties and a shared identification, and should due to this fact want a concrete exterior immediate to collaborate throughout motion boundaries.
• Two case research, together with literature critiques and interviews with key stakeholders, examined notable intermovement coalitions. These case research primarily make clear the course of of intermovement coalition constructing: how such coalitions type, what holds them collectively, and what generates rigidity—somewhat than measuring their affect.
  • The EU Meals Coverage Coalition (EUFPC) was shaped to advocate for a standard meals coverage within the E.U.²³ It united a various vary of stakeholders in Europe, from progressive to radical, to push for coverage modifications primarily based on environmental, social, international justice, and agroecological norms. The coalition consisted of each skilled motion communities engaged on formal institutional change and grassroots motion communities centered on particular person habits change. Coalition brokers performed an important position in serving to teams with differing pursuits discover frequent floor and collaborate successfully. E.U. officers acknowledged that EUFPC’s advocacy influenced the European Fee’s Farm to Fork Technique.
  • The Cease the Bioterror Lab Coalition was a cross-movement collaboration between environmental justice and peace teams within the U.S. that managed to persist and obtain some success, regardless of inner tensions and positional variations. The coalition’s success was attributed to a bridging course of the place activists modified their practices to resolve conflicts or exited earlier than inflicting vital disruption.²⁴
• Research carried out with animal advocates and potential coalition companions point out that there’s some curiosity to type extra cross-movement coalitions:
  • Asian advocates interviewed as a part of the Asia Panorama Scoping Examine spoke in regards to the significance of forming strategic alliances past the animal advocacy motion, significantly in areas the place there are few devoted advocates. Potential connections contain teachers, trade stakeholders, and people engaged in sustainability and local weather activism.²⁵
  • Faunalytics researchers interviewed advocates at eight environmental organizations in Brazil, China, and the U.S. to discover the potential for collaboration with animal advocates. Half of the environmental organizations interviewed have been already collaborating with animal advocates, and all have been excited about collaboration—significantly with advocates engaged in authorized advocacy, schooling, and selling plant-based diets. Outcomes additionally urged that willingness for collaboration relies on aligning values, pursuits, and ways, in addition to the capability to handle the partnership successfully.²⁶
  • A subsequent scoping examine by Faunalytics and Good Progress examined alternatives for cross-movement collaboration for farmed animal advocates in six Southeast Asian international locations. Based mostly on desk analysis throughout a spread of social actions, environmental and well being/growth actions have been prioritized as probably the most promising companions for farmed animal advocates as a result of their overlapping issues round sustainable meals programs, agricultural emissions, antibiotic resistance, and zoonotic illness. Interviews with 10 leaders from organizations in these actions then explored collaboration dynamics in additional element:²⁷
    • Youth-led local weather teams have been usually already sympathetic to animal advocacy.
    • Coalitions within the area tended to be primarily based on pragmatic concerns and have been largely venture primarily based somewhat than requiring full worth alignment. They generally included shared funding, joint occasions, and complementary position task (e.g., some companions doing grassroots mobilization, whereas others dealt with institutional engagement).
    • Farmed animal advocacy was usually perceived as area of interest, and plant-based messaging confronted resistance in lower-income communities the place meat is considered as aspirational.
    • The authors beneficial that animal advocates construct belief by demonstrating alignment with widely-shared issues like public well being or environmental safety first, earlier than introducing farmed animal points.

Power of proof

• The general power of proof is low to average. Most research are qualitative, descriptive, or primarily based on case research, and there’s hardly any causal attribution or rigorous analysis of outcomes.
• For interpersonal community constructing, a lot of the proof comes from self-report research with small, largely demographically homogeneous samples, usually from the U.Ok., U.S., or Canada. Whereas findings recommend advantages for motivation and retention, causal attribution, generalizability, and long-term affect stay unsure.
• Analysis on interorganizational and intermovement collaboration largely attracts from fields exterior animal advocacy and is supported by anecdotal stories and logic fashions, somewhat than empirical research. The broader social motion literature provides helpful frameworks for understanding how coalitions type, what sustains them, and what causes them to fail, however it’s largely course of centered and doesn’t resolve the query of whether or not coalition constructing produces affect past the sum of what particular person organizations might obtain alone.
• Main analysis gaps embody lack of quantitative and longitudinal research throughout all three ranges of community constructing; restricted consideration to dangers, comparable to elevated burnout, energy imbalances, or ineffective coalition buildings; minimal illustration from LMICs and different under-researched areas; and few indicators or metrics for measuring the affect and price effectiveness of community constructing.
• Further gaps highlighted by the broader social motion literature embody the position of belief—each between people and between organizations—as a mechanism underlying community effectiveness, which has solely been studied exterior animal advocacy;²⁸ and the affect of ideological range inside the animal motion (e.g., welfare v. abolition approaches) on the tractability and effectiveness of coalition constructing, which the literature identifies as a significant factor in different actions.²⁹

Price effectiveness

We have been unable to search out any sturdy cost-effectiveness analyses of community constructing interventions inside animal advocacy.

Underneath what situations is that this intervention kind of efficient?

Interpersonal community constructing

• Qualitative proof means that community constructing could also be more practical at growing engagement with animal advocacy when casual networking is mixed with the availability of tangible sources for getting concerned, comparable to teams or meetups to affix after the occasion or actions to take part in,³⁰ however this was implied somewhat than instantly examined.
• The social motion literature additionally means that the standard of relationships inside networks determines whether or not networking helps or undermines sustained engagement. Belief between activists is constructed by way of repeated optimistic interactions, however can be broken shortly by interpersonal battle, perceived betrayal, or over reliance on a single trusted determine.³¹ That is according to the Pax Fauna discovering that advocates’ lowest factors usually revolve round battle with fellow advocates,³² and means that networking initiatives might profit from intentionally investing in battle decision capability and relationship upkeep, not simply creating the preliminary alternatives for connection.
• There are additionally anecdotal accounts of interpersonal networking being a possible supply of burnout somewhat than a protecting issue, as, for instance, on this Efficient Altruism Discussion board put up, which describes burnout skilled after an EA World Convention. Lots of the responses recount related experiences. We aren’t conscious of any empirical analysis on the components that make these experiences kind of seemingly.
• Moreover, all networking areas deliver with them the chance of discrimination, harassment, or different dangerous interpersonal dynamics. One other Efficient Altruism Discussion board put up, for instance, discusses how networking and group occasions inside the Efficient Altruism house can inadvertently create environments the place energy disparities make it tough for numerous people to voice dissent or assert their boundaries. This dynamic can foster nervousness and conformity, doubtlessly compromising the general effectiveness and integrity of the group.
• In contexts the place advocates face vital authorities opposition, the social motion literature additionally paperwork regimes actively working to erode belief inside activist networks by way of surveillance, infiltration, and co-optation.³³

Interorganizational community constructing

• Interorganizational community constructing could also be more practical when organizations are clear about their capability constructing priorities, networks explicitly share learnings and sources with one another, e-learning and different on-line sources are used to community cost-effectively, and there’s long-term dedication and mutual belief.³⁴ Nonetheless, that is primarily based on only one literature overview that’s not peer-reviewed or systematic, and it isn’t clear what indicators of effectiveness have been used.
• Opinions of social motion literature present proof for extra components, however focus primarily on the situations that facilitate coalition constructing and sustainability somewhat than these enhancing their effectiveness:
  • The presence of “bridge builders”—people with connections throughout a number of organizations—was recognized as one of many strongest predictors of whether or not interorganizational coalitions type and persist.³⁵
  • Organizations with broad, multi-issue targets appear extra prone to enter coalitions than these with a slender single-issue focus.³⁶
  • Organizational belief, i.e., belief between organizations as collective entities, appears to be a key issue predicting coalition sustainability; coalitions the place organizational belief relies on a small variety of private relationships could also be extra fragile than these the place belief is embedded in organizational norms and shared practices.³⁷
  • The diploma of ideological alignment wanted between coalition companions seems to rely upon the depth of the collaboration. Unfastened, project-based coalitions (e.g., co-authoring a coverage temporary or cohosting a one-off occasion) can tolerate vital ideological range, whereas long-term formal collaborations involving joint technique and shared resolution making require better congruence.³⁸ This may occasionally have implications for animal advocacy, the place significant ideological variations exist (e.g., between extra welfare- and extra rights-based approaches), however this has not been explicitly studied inside the motion.
  • Availability of sources can each help and inhibit collaboration. The extra sources a company has accessible, the higher positioned they’re to take a position time and workers in coalition work. When sources are scarce, organizations could also be motivated to pool sources with others however may be stretched too skinny to spend money on collaboration, or be compelled to show inward to concentrate on organizational survival. Forming a coalition with a better-resourced associate also can carry dangers: The extra highly effective group might dominate framing and technique, doubtlessly on the threat of subordinating the weaker associate’s priorities.³⁹ This dynamic is particularly related for coalitions between World North and World South organizations, and will plausibly have an effect on animal advocacy given the focus of well-resourced organizations in North America and Europe.

Intermovement community constructing

• For animal advocates particularly, concern framing could also be an necessary issue. Interview knowledge means that farmed animal advocacy may be perceived by potential companions as area of interest or disconnected from broader social priorities, so animal advocates might have to steer with shared issues, comparable to public well being or environmental safety, earlier than introducing animal-specific points. Nonetheless, this may occasionally include dangers, particularly if local weather or well being framing encourage small animal substitute.⁴⁰ Plant-based messaging particularly can face resistance in lower-income contexts, suggesting that messaging methods should be tailored to the financial realities of the context potential companions function in.⁴¹
• Wider social motion analysis signifies a number of components which will improve or threaten their formation and cohesion, however doesn’t study instantly what makes them kind of efficient.
  • Numerous coalitions appear to be extra prone to type when they’re triggered by a shared political risk or coverage alternative that provides in any other case disconnected teams a concrete cause to collaborate.⁴²
  • Energy asymmetries between coalition companions are recognized as a serious supply of rigidity, significantly when coalition companions have unequal energy and entry to sources. The challenges could also be exacerbated when coalitions type quickly in response to a disaster with little time to determine shared ideas earlier than motion is required.⁴³
• Case research from different actions additionally recommend situations underneath which the coalitions could also be more practical, however these are anecdotal and haven’t been rigorously examined:
  • The coalition varieties decentralized networks with versatile, dispersed management and alternatives for sub-groups to behave independently with out requiring full consensus.
  • There’s a full-time coordinator to handle coalition efforts.
  • There’s a broad-based dedication throughout all teams to overarching norms and shared values, regardless of differing pursuits.
  • There are pre-existing interpersonal or skilled ties, or there’s a “coalition dealer” with connections to a number of organizations.⁴⁴
  • Activists interact in methods comparable to trigger affirmation, strategic deployment, exclusion, and co-commitments.⁴⁵

Our priorities for enhancing this proof overview

• The place potential, we wish to embody extra various geographic and demographic views, significantly from LMICs and non-English-speaking contexts, to enhance generalizability.
• We hope to solicit unpublished affect knowledge and cost-effectiveness analyses.
• We wish to search out specialists within the area and incorporate their opinions the place related.
• We wish to discover related analysis referring to different social actions in additional element, comparable to environmental, civil rights, or labor, the place network-building has been extra extensively studied.

1. Prosser et al. (2023) 

2. Bryant et al. (2022); see additionally this Faunalytics (2023) examine on bringing again former veg*ns. 

3. Anderson (2020) 

4. Hamer (2023) 

5. Weipert-Fenner et al. (2024) 

6. Weipert-Fenner et al. (2024) 

7. Piper et al. (2023), as mentioned by Weipert-Fenner et al. (2024) 

8. Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

9. Chandler & Kennedy (2015) 

10. E.g., Cockburn (2018) 

11. Matthes et al. (2023) 

12. Dillard et al. (2022) 

13. Kankyoku (2023) 

14. Ozden & Ostarek (2022) 

15. Gawerc (2019); Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

16. Gawerc (2019); Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

17. López (2026) 

18. Our Hen Home (2026) 

19. López (2026) 

20. Beamish & Luebbers (2014); see additionally Holt (2008) 

21. Gawerc (2019) 

22. Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

23. Shawki & Schnyder (2021) 

24. Beamish & Luebbers (2014) 

25. Wong (2023) 

26. Arévalo, et al. (2024) 

27. Stennet et al. (2025) 

28. Weipert-Fenner et al. (2024) 

29. Gawerc (2019); Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

30. Prosser, et al. (2023) 

31. Weipert-Fenner et al. (2024) 

32. Hamer (2023) 

33. Sika (2023) and Ho (2023), as mentioned in Weipert-Fenner et al. (2024) 

34. Chandler & Kennedy (2015) 

35. Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

36. Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

37. Weipert-Fenner et al. (2024)  

38. Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

39. Gawerc (2019) 

40. E.g., Nicholles (2024) 

41. Stennet et al. (2025) 

42. Van Dyke & Amos (2017) 

43. Gawerc (2019) 

44. Shawki & Schnyder (2021) 

45. Beamish & Luebbers (2014) 

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About Alina Salmen

Alina joined ACE in September 2022. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Psychology, with a concentrate on gender position beliefs and attitudes towards veganism. She is obsessed with utilizing her analysis abilities to help ACE’s mission and scale back animal struggling as a lot as potential.

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