Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacekeeping Trainers’ Manual

By Pt'chang

This handbook was produced by Pt’chang in 2005. Pt’chang was an Australian Nonviolent Community Safety Group which conducted a wide range of dynamic and creative violence-prevention, peace-building and community safety initiatives. Although no longer active Pt’chang has left a valuable legacy both through people they trained and materials such as this.

Excerpts from this handbook are also included as separate articles on the Commons. The full manual can be downloaded from the box at the bottom of this page.

pt’chang training

A particular strength of Pt’chang’s community safety and peace-building work was its commitment to community education, training and skill development. Pt’chang designed training programs as a way of enhancing the capacity of communities and grassroots organisations to create safety.

Pt’chang offered trainings and workshops in nonviolent community safety, nonviolent communication, consensus and group facilitation as well as different aspects of organising and mass direct action. Pt’chang’s nonviolence workshops included strategic planning, campaign building, effective action planning, tactics for actions, street health and safety, civil disobedience, directly democratic decision making, meeting facilitation, conflict resolution and training for trainers and organisers.

Manual Contents

vision statement 5
nonviolent community safety themes 5

introduction to pt’chang training 6
pt’chang’s training philosophy 8

managing training group processes 12
things for pt’chang trainers to remember 12

check list for a pt’chang training course 13
roleplay material 13
venue preparation 13

Competencies for nonviolent community safety and peacekeeping training 14

peacekeeping 1 – 24 hour course content 15
session 1: defining safety, power and nonviolence 16
session 2: nonviolent communication and assertive behaviour 18
session 3: body centred awareness and nonviolent interventions 20
session 4: nonviolent peacekeeping 21
session 5: introduction to conflict resolution 23
session 6: mediation /negotiation 25
session 7: looking after ourselves 27
session 8: large roleplay – review training 29

weekend format agenda 31

three hour format: introduction to nonviolent interventions 43

a guide to the exercise format 46
exercise title: defining safety 47
exercise title: area coverage and observation 49
exercise title: nonviolent interventions 51
exercise title: dealing with fear 53

quick energizers / focusing /gathering activities 56
the pt’chang games list 59

overheads and handouts 65

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Topics:

• Working in Groups

Collection:

• Pt'chang

Tags:

• Capacity building
• Conflict Resolution_Management
• Group skills
• Movements_Campaigns - Peace
• Safety
• Safety education
• Training
• Wellbeing

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