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Resources Featured Within the Dialogue

General

• An in depth guide to nonviolent action produced by the CANVAS organization.
• A free UK booklet on practical activist advice.
• A Nonviolence Communication guide produced by The Center for Nonviolent Communication.
• The Movement Action Plan: A strategic framework describing the eight stages of successful social movements.

Theory

• On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking about the Fundamentals.
• An explanation about the need for diversity in nonviolence tactics.
• A look at the importance of community building with other organizations.

Methods

• The Nonviolent raid as an intervention tactic.
• Unarmed accompaniment with threatened activists.
• Proactive Presence: Field strategies for civilian protection.
• The backfire model. A framework for understanding tactics used by perpetrators of injustice and how to oppose them.
• Resources for learning and understanding the backfire method.
• The International Theatre of the Oppressed Organization.
• The method of Action Theatre.
• A collection of 198 methods of nonviolent action.
• Information about Jessie Dart and the development of The Most Significant Change method.
• The ‘Most Significant Change’ (MSC) Technique: A Guide to Its Use by Rick Davies and Jess Dart.

Tools

• The Spectrum of Allies: A study of the barometer of social forces and groups, spread across the spectrum from those who are the most dedicated opponents to those who are the most active supporters.
• The Tactical Mapping tool is a method of visualizing the institutions and relationships sustaining human rights abuses, and then tracking the nature and potency of tactics available to affect these systems, ultimately serving as a tool to monitor the implementation of strategy.
• Creating a Tactical Timeline.
• Opening Space for Democracy: Third Party Nonviolent intervention training curriculum.
• New Protection Manual for Human Rights Defenders.
• Critical-path analysis tool developed to shift a groups thinking about tactics to outcomes.
• A tool to map out power.
• Activist education that uses the Spiral model.
• The Transcend diagram for resolving conflict and contradictions.
• A tool for opening people up to discussion on different attitudes and behavior in conflict situations
• The practical strategist movement action plan
• Narrative ways of working with groups and communities.

Training

• Education and training for effective environmental advocacy.
• The training of trainers in nonviolent conflict transformation.

Exercises

• An exercise for moving from tactics to strategy.
• An exercise teaching people about teacher/participant learning.

Case Studies and Examples

• Tactic transferability: The nonviolent raid as a case study.
• A look at Canada Free Trade information.
• The Turkish form of light resistance.
• A story about rehearsing before a protest.
• A comprehensive overview of peace training in Europe.
• Strategic project management in applied to peace building initiatives.
• A three year examination of the experiences of peace practitioners.
• An example of non-violent disruption with the bank in the Philippines.
• A nonviolent Supreme Court action with video.
• Human rights measurement research.
• Evaluating advocacy.
• Development of the anti-globalization movement and diversity.

Recommended Books, Films, and Games

• Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies by Kurt Shock
• Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People
• Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America by Ward Churchill
• How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
• Several documentary films and books about the history of nonviolence. It also contains several teaching tools and aids.
• A civil resistance bibliography.
• A Force More Powerful is the only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods.