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    Strategic Questioning Manual: A Powerful Tool for Personal and Social Change

    Strategic questioning is a powerful tool for social change which helps people discover their own strategies and ideas for change.

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    Tips on How to Give and Receive Feedback

    Giving and receiving feedback is a core skill for people engaged in social change projects. These tips can improve the effectiveness of giving feedback.

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    Consensus Decision Making

    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…

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    On Conflict and Consensus

    Making collective decisions and navigating conflict are core activist skills. Here is a list of principles to build consensus.

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    Principles of Co-operative Conflict Resolution

    Navigating conflict is a core activist skill. Tips from peacebuilding have the potential to depolarise & de-escalate challenging situations.

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    De-escalate, Manage and Transform Conflict

    Here are some suggestions, drawn from the literature of conflict resolution and psychotherapy, that can be used to de-escalate conflicts.

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    Giving and Receiving Feedback

    ‘Feedback’ is a communication to a person or a group which gives that person informationย  about how they affect others. It is important to be able to give feedback in such a way that people can hear it, take it in, evaluate it, and change behaviour which affects their relationship with others.

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    3 Strategies For Peace: Peacekeeping, Peacemaking & Peacebuilding

    Learn about the three major approaches to peace identified by Johan Gultung: peacekeeping, peacemaking, peacebuilding.

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    Checklist for a Great Facilitator

    Facilitators help a group to get where it needs to go, whether the focus of a gathering is information sharing, discussion, generating creative options, making decisions, team building or planning for action. Here are some tips and tricks for facilitation, to help you get the most out of your next meeting.

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