This guide is aimed at people and groups working for social change who want to develop an understanding of conflict and how to deal with it. There are sections on what conflict is, the benefits of addressing it, and tools to work though conflict and maintain healthy and effective social change groups.
Learn about why conflict happens in social change groups in Working with Conflict in our Groups: A Guide for Grassroots Activists.
How to take effective action to deal with conflict in your group from Working with Conflict in our Groups: A Guide for Grassroots Activists.
This Guide provides ideas and strategies for activists groups to implement when dealing with conflict which is inevitable.
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.
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.
Conflict Icebergs is a leaderful organising tool allowing us to understand conflicts and find empowering perspectives within them.
These resources from the Pathways to Repair project discuss the challenges of navigating relationships and resolving conflicts within communities, highlighting the need for pathways to repair and reduce harm.
Videos and overviews of group norms and social identity within the context of understanding conflict between groups.
A strategic framework for activists, peacebuilders, and organizers working to transform violent conflict and advance a just peace.
People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.
Security & safety practices, Verbal De-escalation, Office and Organizational Safety, and Security for events and actions by Vision Change Win.
Understand when to talk and when to fight with this model for talking about conflict, negotiation and resistance.
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.
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.
Training resources by Pt’chang for practical ways to intervene in violence, to transform conflict and to build peace.
Resource for activists engaged in work for peace including practical ways to intervene in violence, to transform conflict and to build peace.
Strategic questioning is a powerful tool for social change which helps people discover their own strategies and ideas for change.
Giving and receiving feedback is a core skill for people engaged in social change projects. These slides and related text outline what can maximise or minimise the effectiveness of feedback and useful phrases.
Consensus is a nonviolent decision-making process that aims to create the best possible decision for the group. The input and ideas of all participants are gathered and synthesized to arrive at a final decision that is acceptable to all. Through consensus, we are not only working to achieve better solutions, but also to promote the growth of trust and respect within the group.