This tool developed by Starts With Us aims to fight toxic division and extremism and build tolerance and compassionate relationships.
Collection: Democracy Resource Hub Collection
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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Nonviolent Action and Pro-Democracy Struggles
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.
SNAP: Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: An Action Guide
A strategic framework for activists, peacebuilders, and organizers working to transform violent conflict and advance a just peace.
Violence and the Backfire Effect
There are ways that social movements and organizers can handle violence to their advantage and why violence can backfire.
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.
Overcome Toxic Polarisation: A Political Courage Challenge
This tool developed by Starts With Us aims to fight toxic division and extremism and build tolerance and compassionate relationships.
Nonviolent Action and Pro-Democracy Struggles
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.
SNAP: Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: An Action Guide
A strategic framework for activists, peacebuilders, and organizers working to transform violent conflict and advance a just peace.
Violence and the Backfire Effect
There are ways that social movements and organizers can handle violence to their advantage and why violence can backfire.
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.