Our Nonviolence Guidelines: adapted from the School of America Watch’s Nonviolence Guidelines

"We act in solidarity with people around the world whose lives are impacted by these policies, as one part of an international struggle for human rights and global justice. We gather in the diverse traditions of nonviolence, with respect for the right to self-determination of oppressed peoples and communities. Together we envision a day in which a culture of peace with justice and respect for Earth will prevail, where all people will live together free from oppression."

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Globalize Liberation: 5 Stages for Social Movements by George Lakey

“The primary task of every revolutionary movement is to create a vision of what activists want instead of the status quo. Vision inspires people to want to join us because they can contrast it with the consumerist hat tricks which the power holders use to distract from planetary crisis. Vision inspires us, because it not only clarifies what we want but reminds us why we want it. Vision reduces co-optation, because its integrity is a rebuke against meaningless compromise. Vision builds unity, because tactical disagreements and personality clashes are smaller in the perspective of our goals.”

Read the George Lakey 5 Stages Essay
Read the George Lakey Nonviolent Action as the Sword that Heals Essay

The Albert Einstein Institute: Correcting Common Misconceptions About Nonviolent Action

“Nonviolent action is a technique of socio-political action for applying power in a conflict without the use of physical violence. Nonviolent action may involve acts of omission-that is, people may refuse to perform acts that they usually perform, or are required by law to perform, are not expected by custom to perform, or are forbidden to perform: or a combination of the two. As a technique, therefore, nonviolent action is not passive. It is action that is nonviolent.”

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Training for Change

Training for Change was founded on Martin Luther King's birthday in 1992, a carefully chosen birthday for a group that spreads the skills of democratic, nonviolent social change. Since then they’ve led hundreds of workshops for nonviolent activists around the world with a unique direct education approach. They've included crowd control workshops for Mohawks, strategic planning retreats for Greenpeace, civil disobedience workshops for nursing-home workers, strike training's for steelworkers and civil disobedience classes for ACT-UP. Their workshops include: The Nonviolent Warrior: A 2-day workshop for groups


“Activists who want more powerful change strategies... Everyone who doesn't want to wait for politicians to "save them"... Anyone who wants to channel anger and dissatisfaction into action for change

On May 28-29, 2005 thirty people of diverse backgrounds attended the Nonviolence Warrior training sponsored by IJPC and held at Peaslee Neighborhood Center. During the weekend new allies were formed and practical tools for creating strategies, evaluating effective tactics, and designing campaigns that mobilize people on a deeper level were discovered. A richer understanding of the applications of nonviolent action developed.”

download the entire IJPC Nonviolence Warrior Report pdf
download the entire IJPC Nonviolence Warrior Brochure pdf

Turn Your Back On Bush Action: Basic Training Design by Training for Change

“This basic training design is a to provide a resource for people wanting to help prepare their groups. This training is one possible design to assist your group in that way. It’s an introductory workshop design with an emphasis on the immediate skills of de-escalation and the scenario for this particular action.”

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download the entire Basic Training Participant Handout pdf

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) website

“NVC is based on a fundamental principle: Underlying all human actions are needs that people are seeking to meet, and understanding and acknowledging these needs can create a shared basis for connection, cooperation and more globally-peace”

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February 25-26, 2006, IJPC sponsored “Speaking Peace in a World of Conflict: A Nonviolent Communication Workshop facilitated by Jeff Brown. Fellowship of Reconciliation: Creating a Culture of Peace

“Individuals and groups who want to increase their spirituality and practice of active nonviolence as a way of life and who are committed to transforming our culture of violence will find FOR nonviolence training inspiring and helpful. Newcomers to active nonviolence as well as those who are long time activists, individuals focused on training for their own groups and individuals who wish to become facilitators, groups that are newly-forming and groups that are already established - all are encouraged to consider FOR nonviolence training.”

read more about FOR Nonviolence Training
download the Creating a Culture of Peace pdf

 

Stories: Victories for Nonviolent Activists:

Building up the The Beloved Community, IJPC: ISSUES, Winter 20006
“To stay in the work, to remain joyful and moved to act, it’s absolutely essential to recognize and celebrate where the Beloved Community is breaking in, being made present, slowly being built up. And today I want to celebrate how it is being formed, how it’s being created all over Cincinnati through the efforts of so many people.”

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Reasons to Celebrate, 2004, IJPC: ISSUES, Winter 2005
“We need to remember these folks, these efforts, these movements, too. We need to remember the power we have when we come together and organize, the possibilities for change. And we need to celebrate them!”

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Reasons to Celebrate, 2004, IJPC: ISSUES, Winter 2006
"After all we are bombarded on a daily basis by our media by what is wrong in the world . Of course that is not the whole story either. Reality is far more complex than that. Throughout the year, and even as I write this very minute, people have been and are resolving conflicts, finding local solutions to environmental and economic woes, effectively and creatively resisting large corporations."

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How do we end the war and stop the next one? A Litany on Nonviolent Action
“Imagine what it would be like if more and more folks started learning Nonviolent Communication skills - alternative ways of resolving conflict - and consciously began living the peaceful, egalitarian, just world we want in to being?”

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Fellowship of Reconciliation: What YOU can do to build a culture of peace and nonviolence
Creative ideas that will awaken the imagination of your community for students, parents, teachers, schools. congregations, community members and peacemakers.

“ A culture of nonviolence values love, compassion, and justice. It rejects violence as a means of solving problems. Instead, it embraces communication, cooperative decision-making, and nonviolent conflict resolution. It ensures freedom, security, and equitable relationships. It promotes inner peace, personal transformation, and disarmament.”

read the entire What You Can Do article

The Albert Einstein Institute: 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

“Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of "nonviolent weapons" at their disposal. Listed are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention.”

download the 198 Methods pdf