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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.
