Violence and the Backfire Effect
There are ways that social movements and organizers can handle violence to their advantage and why violence can backfire.
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Democracy Resource Hub Collection
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.
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Beautiful Action Trainer Modules (BATMo): Resources for Nonviolent Action Trainers
People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.
Conversation Guide: Democracy, Extremism, and Outliers
Conversation Guide about democracy from Living Room Conversations who use guided conversations to build understanding & transform communities.
Get in Formation: A Community Safety Toolkit
Security & safety practices, Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions by Vision Change Win.
Bridge Building and Power Building: An Ecosystem Approach to Social Change
Better understand how the work of activists, bridge-builders, and organizers can reinforce one another as well as be in constructive tension.
Authoritarianism: How You Know It When You See It
Understand the key attributes of authoritarian systems, how authoritarians wield power, and ways to counter it.
The Checklist to End Tyranny: How Dissidents will Win 21st Century Civil Resistance Campaigns
This book is designed to help opponents of autocratic regimes become more strategic and more skilful in their struggle for democracy.
Introduction to Campaigning and Social Movements (Online Courses)
Three courses by 350.org about how to campaign and social movements. The courses are very user friendly, easy to follow and accessible.
Making Your Activism 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!
Why coalition building isn’t about the coalition: Listening, leading, and making change happen
What are the key elements of building a powerful coalition? Here are 3 tips to become a great coalition builder.
Guide to Campaign and Movement Building by the Leading Change Network
Learn about campaigning, organizing, movement building with this list of resources and case studies from the Leading Change Network.
Guide to Public Narrative 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.
Guide to Organizing from the Leading Change Network
A collection of organizing resources from the Leading Change Network including manuals, videos, tools, courses and training materials.
When to Talk and When to Fight: The Strategic Choice between Dialogue and Resistance
Understand when to talk and when to fight with this model for talking about conflict, negotiation and resistance.
We Will Not Cancel Us: Book Review
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.
Transformative Approaches to Conflict Resolution
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.
ChangeMakers Organising School – Season Two
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.
Systems Thinking for Campaigning and Organizing
Help campaigns & organising strategies be more effective at driving systems change with this guide from Blueprints for Change on systems thinking.
Supporting Young People’s Activism in the Climate Emergency
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.
Get Real about Privilege: Become an Ally
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.