Digital Library of Nonviolent Resistance

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Training Manual

35 pages

October 1998

Bibliography

1994

Training Manual

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Training Manual

March 1st 1982

Training Manual

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Training Manual

22 pages

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Training Manual

March 1997

Report

14 pages

The DC Action Camp document describes the schedule from January 14th to the 16th for the DC Action Camp #DISRUPTJ20. The DC Counter Inaugural Welcoming Committee has created a series of training to disrupt the inauguration processes on January 20th, 2017. The core set of training provided in DC Action Camp aims to actively gather and resist measures of repression that Trump would enact. The curriculum includes direct action tactics, legal training, and security. Some of these are bystander intervention training, strategic organizing in the face of police violence, and radical cheerleading. These training were organized by time and location.

Handbook

14 pages

2005

Organizing records of a legal seminar on international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, including invitation emails, schedules, and participant introductions. This four-day event gathered international humanitarian law experts, human rights practitioners, and Palestinian civil society representation in the OPT. The seminar is a follow up to the 1988 legal conference to create change to the fundamental legal framework. This comes 15 years later with a changed situation in the West Bank that accompanies settlement expansion and construction of the Annexation Wall. Speakers include William Shabas, Jonathan Kuttab, Raja Shehadeh, and Jamel Juma.

Lesson Plan and Outline

11 pages

2002

Syllabus for workshops on peace feminist activism, introducing the principles of peace activism and different kinds of actions.

handout

8 pages

2005

Mubarak Awad defines nonviolence, along with its basic principles and practices, using Palestine as a case study. This piece acknowledges the provocative nature of nonviolent tactics. This text provides seven principles of nonviolence including the educational process of lifelong nonviolence, its practical application, the symbolic forms, non-cooperation as a necessity, contact with peace-seeking opposition, and the use of nonviolent intervention. The paper also includes potential "what ifs" and a look ahead.

2 pages

2005

This text is a short guide of the ways and history of teaching under academic scrutiny by a national government. Beshara Doumani writes a cautionary article regarding academic freedom in the United States. The post-9/11 era sparked fear and worry across schools. In telling readers to "be careful" Doumani invites scholars to carefully think about how to address academic progress. Her thoughts juxtapose academic freedom with principles of war and peace.

Article

2 pages

2006

The handout includes guidelines for a U.S. divestment campaign against the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investments adopted a classification system to identify multinational l cooperations in Israel and Palestine. The policy aims at supporting the Geneva Accords. The guide includes a policy background, classification rationale, classification system, progressive engagement list, and process. These guidelines specifically apply to phased, selective US divestments.

handout

86 pages

Manual de capacitación contra golpes del Estado

Manual

1 pages

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This handout comes as part of the article “Magic of the Facilitator.” The following 14 competencies are basic guiding values found in a successful facilitator. A facilitator may have strengths in one or a mixture of these. Using this in your nonviolent training can allow for everyone to find themselves in the role of the facilitator.

Tip Sheets and Guides

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This two page guide provides a comprehensive how-to when handling difficult behaviors in meetings. The guide includes behaviors exhibited by hecklers, overly-talkative participants, the griper, and even those who do not participate. The chart explains what this behavior looks like and different ways on how to handle each behavior. members

Tip Sheets and Guides

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Flipcharts are used to validate what workshop or meeting participants are saying by transcribing what people are feeling. This page explains why to use flipcharts, the impact of not using flipcharts, what not to do with flipcharts, and how to use flip charts. Most importantly flipcharts are used to clarify and improve meeting productivity but not control the meeting.

3 pages

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Tips for effective group facilitation

Tip Sheets and Guides

1 pages

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Constructive critique aims to provide tips on how to give effective and constructive criticism. With leadership comes accountability and giving critique can be difficult. This guide how to form critique, decide the international behind the critique, and when to use it with others. This is a five step process that will help soften the process of giving harsh feedback.

Tip Sheets and Guides

3 pages

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This document clarifies how to make meetings work in a culturally diverse group. The tips in the guide help to cultivate meaningful discussion in groups and maintain clear communication. Also addressed are the cultural norms that may differ when in meetings with colleagues with different regional backgrounds. When there are different nationalities, ethnicities and cultures represented in groups it is important to recognize differences in behavioral values. Some examples in the text are speaking out, making suggestions, or disagreeing with someone in an authority role.

Handbook

8 pages

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A Guide to Conflict Resolution provides a deeper understanding of the nature of conflict, types of conflict, and ways to deal with conflict. At the root of conflict exists varied perspectives, belief systems and values, and personal interests. In an effort to mediate conflict this guide provides specific steps to breakthrough with communication while allowing for the voicing and hearing of complaints. There is also a section with hints for de-escalation.

Handbook

12 pages

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A manual that provides effective leadership skills and tools to use during nonviolence training

manual

5 pages

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This group process manual pairs goals with their process across several concepts. This guide can be used by Facilitators and group leaders who are looking for tips on how to lead groups. Some examples in this guide include think pair share, action lists, and brainstorming. Each of the examples takes you through the process from start to finish.

Tip Sheets and Guides

5 pages

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These Community Skills Workshop draft notes focus largely on how to listen well. The guide suggest listening is active, counseling, support venting, problem-solving, and coaching. When using nonviolent communication there are several stages of group development that can support group health during group conflict and secondary processes. This document also talks about when groups need to be involved and when they do not need to be involved in a conflict.

Tip Sheets and Guides

1 pages

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How to suppress political dissent in 10 easy steps gives 10 examples of what might be used to silence political activists. Each of these steps comes from the perspective of the powerful, and attempts to publicly threaten and delay activism.

Tip Sheets and Guides

1 pages

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These 20 rules of activism which continued to be a work in progress provide some Sage advice for those in this field. These 20 rules come by way of Darryl Cherney but should not be limited to the list provided.

Tip Sheets and Guides

2 pages

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Democracy and consensus is a document that helps explain to participants the historical background and the working parts of direct democracy. This text could be used by affinity groups, spokes councils, and direct action organizations. Consensus as a form of decision-making has been the most consistent in a society of direct democracy.

3 pages

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This document acts as a checklist of basic principles of democratic organization. This has been adopted from the Troublemakers Handbook. This checklist asks us if we work with others by means of working together to make change, question authority which makes people think and use their judgment, confront management in a way to speak truth to power and ,spread information to give people the information they need or teach them how to get it themselves.

Tip Sheets and Guides

13 pages

2017

A list of various training resources

Tip Sheets and Guides