The purpose of this hub is to provide a wide range of tools and resources for anti-authoritarian and pro-democracy organizing in an easily accessible manner for trainers/facilitators, researchers, and practitioners.
This includes tools and resources from the fields of social justice, nonviolence action, organizing, leadership, bridge-building, peacebuilding, and democracy strengthening.
Artwork: Veronika Belcheva (CC-BY-NC-SA)
The main issue is that the US government’s “democracy promotion” agenda has provided repressive regimes with an excuse to label popular pro-democracy movements challenging them as foreign agents, even when led by independent grassroots nonviolent activists.
A strategic framework for activists, peacebuilders, and organizers working to transform violent conflict and advance a just peace.
There are ways that social movements and organizers can handle violence to their advantage and why violence can backfire.
People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.
Conversation Guide about democracy from Living Room Conversations who use guided conversations to build understanding & transform communities.
Security & safety practices, Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions by Vision Change Win.
Better understand how the work of activists, bridge-builders, and organizers can reinforce one another as well as be in constructive tension.
Understand the key attributes of authoritarian systems, how authoritarians wield power, and ways to counter it.
This book is designed to help opponents of autocratic regimes become more strategic and more skilful in their struggle for democracy.
Three courses by 350.org about how to campaign and social movements. The courses are very user friendly, easy to follow and accessible.
This guide was developed to support activists in making their spaces, events, meetings and communications more accessible, in order to ensure that everyone is welcome and encouraged to join a movement for justice in whatever way they can!
Learn about campaigning, organizing, movement building with this list of resources and case studies from the Leading Change Network.
Learn all about public narrative developed by Marshall Ganz and the story of self, us and now with this collection of tools and resources.
A collection of organizing resources from the Leading Change Network including manuals, videos, tools, courses and training materials.
Understand when to talk and when to fight with this model for talking about conflict, negotiation and resistance.
Review of the booklet We Will Not Cancel Us – And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown. Discusses transformative justice approaches as an alternative accountability measure to ‘canceling’ individual harm-doers.
This article introduces some of the key concepts of transformative justice and provides links to a wide array of resources. Transformative justice describes a systems approach to identifying root causes of conflict and responding to these as a community.
Notes from training sessions hosted by ChangeMakers and Tipping Point April to July 2020. The training aims to equip organisers and campaigners to respond to challenges and continue their work during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Young people are powerful agents of social change! This article includes tips for communicating with young people about the climate crisis and ways to support youth leadership including interrupting age-related oppression.
Making change means that our allies need the confidence to play different roles at different times depending on our respective needs and on the common goal.