Training resources by Pt’chang for practical ways to intervene in violence, to transform conflict and to build peace.
Introduction
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 Although no longer active Pt’chang has left a valuable legacy both through people they trained and materials such as this.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.
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.
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
Download Resource
Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacekeeping Trainers’ Manual
Explore Further
- Nonviolence Trainer’s Resource Manual
- Pt’chang Volunteers Manual
- A Collection of Nonviolence Quotes
- SNAP: Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: An Action Guide
- Strategies For Peace
- Bridge Building and Power Building: An Ecosystem Approach to Social Change
- Nonviolent Action and Pro-Democracy Struggles
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