Democracy Resource Hub
The Democracy Hub has a wide range of nonviolent tools and resources for anti-authoritarian and pro-democracy organizing.
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.
Artwork: Veronika Belcheva (CC-BY-NC-SA)
Directory of Social Change Organisations, Networks, Trainers and Hubs
An A – Z directory of organisations, networks, trainers and hubs around the world that focus on social change, social movements, organising, justice and peacebuilding.
Mediation for Movements: Managing Intra-Movement Conflict
Explore how movements can manage internal conflict when it inevitably arises as they seek to build broad-based pro-democracy coalitions of active, passive, and unlikely allies.
Rebuilding Public Power: Stopping Corporate Overreach
Activities, videos, and case studies that will help participants assess corporate power in their own communities and build visions for public and collective power.
Block, Bridge and Build: Playbook for an Inclusive Multi-Racial Democracy
Tools and frameworks for pro-democracy organizations and organizers on the front lines of the fight against authoritarianism.
Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook
How populist nationalist leaders across various democracies are employing a playbook involving fear exploitation, institutional undermining, truth erosion, and more to erode democratic values and consolidate power.
Speaking Out Against Bigoted, Dehumanizing Rhetoric: What We Can Do
This guide documents the surge in antisemitic and Islamophobic hate incidents, explains the link between rhetoric and violence, and provides suggestions and resources to take action.
Interactive, Self Paced Mini Courses on Organising: Global Organizing and Leadership Development GOLD
These online courses explore the foundations of organising, distributed leadership, social movements, and the concept of the Movement Cycle.
1/6: The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol Succeeded?
1/6 The Graphic Novel is a comic about the US Capitol attacks in 2021. It asks what if the insurrection had been successful?
The Neutrality Trap : Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Book)
The message at the heart of The Neutrality Trap is that, when it comes to the important social issues that face us today, avoiding conflict is a mistake.
Conversation Guide: Trust in Elections (Local)
Conversation Guide about democracy from Living Room Conversations who use guided conversations to build understanding & transform communities.
Digital Tools Assessment Template
Handy template to assess the digital tools currently in your organization or campaign toolbox and how those tools can be leveraged to build or deepen capacities.
Introduction to Digital Organizing
A primer designed by re:power to help you understand how to best use digital organizing strategies and tactics to strengthen your electoral and advocacy organizing work.
Authentic Relational Conversations: Reaching Across Difference to Build a Pro-Democracy Movement
Reaching across difference using authentic relational conversations and organising to build a pro-democracy movement in the United States.
Writing a Solidarity Statement: Considerations and Process Questions
A guide to writing a solidarity statement by the Building Movement Project including examples of inspiring statements from different groups.
Coalition Building: Start Here
A guide to Coalition Building resources in the Commons Social Change Library including frameworks, training sessions, podcasts, and case studies.
Justice, Diversity & Inclusion: Start Here
Find a comprehensive list of resources from The Commons Social Change Library on diversity, inclusion and solidarity in social movements.
Belonging Design Principles: Guide for Building Belonging
A set of principles and practices that can root out inequality and exclusion while helping us turn toward, rather than against, each other.
A Community Guide for Opposing Hate
The manual provides step by step actions for those who want to do something about hate, not only for the immediate aftermath of a hateful act, but for years to come to improve their community.
The Authoritarian Playbook: How Reporters can Contextualize and Cover Authoritarian Threats as Distinct from Politics-as-Usual
Guide for journalists and the media on the seven fundamental tactics used by aspiring authoritarians and a framework journalists can use to discern, contextualize, and cover the tactics.