nonviolence
Blueprint for revolution
In Blueprint for Revolution, Srdja Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists everywhere through stories of his own experience toppling dictatorships (peacefully) and of smaller examples of social change...
Why civil resistance works The strategic logic of nonviolent conflict
The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles, even when used against similar opponents and in the face of repression. Nonviolent campaigns are more likely to...
Handbook for nonviolent campaigns: War Resisters International
There are many dramatic images of nonviolent action. Indeed, the ability to dramatise an issue is one of the strengths of nonviolence; it tries to make people see and act on what often passes unnoticed. However, this drama doesn’t just happen. It gestates—in...
The Citizens Handbook: Practical assistance for those who want to make a difference
An excellent and extensive collection of resources on: planning and acting; getting noticed; evaluating; getting and keeping people; leading; meeting and deciding; facilitating; fundraising; group structure; door-knocking; conflict resolution; listening...
Sending the protest message
Brian Martin and J0rgen Johansen ask: what makes a protest action effective? Heads of government are coming to town. Let’s organise a protest! We’ll have a massive rally and march. Those who want to can blockade the venue. We’ll make our concerns...
Schweik Action Wollongong
SAW is a small voluntary group in Wollongong, Australia, fostering awareness of nonviolent responses to aggression and repression. Nonviolent action includes leafletting, rallies, strikes, boycotts, sit-ins, fasts and many other methods of social action. Nonviolent...
Movement for a New Society
The Movement for a New Society (MNS) was a U.S.-based network of social activists, committed to the principles of nonviolence, who played a key role in social movements of the 1970s and ’80s. The early members of MNS consciously sought to develop tools and...
Inspiring article about the Bulgarian environment movement
Efforts to contain the rallies proved futile. The next day, the number of protesters had doubled. Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, at first stood firm, insisting that nothing could stop investment in winter tourism.
The Three Applications of Nonviolent Action
George Lakey writes: “Nonviolent action has three major applications: social change; social defense; and third-party nonviolent intervention… There are four forms of third-party nonviolent intervention I have so far identified: accompaniment,...
‘Gandhi and beyond’ book review
Jason MacLeod’s review of David Cortright’s (2006) ‘Gandhi and Beyond’: Cortright offers a useful book for students and educators of nonviolent action. He provides a sensitive, sympathetic and critical overview of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr....
Debating Tactics: Remember to ask ‘What works?’
Stonewall, Cochabamba Water War, anti-apartheid defiance campaign, Tahrir Square 2011, anti-nuclear demos, the 1980s Central America solidarity movement, Gandhian salt march. In my estimation, every single one of these was successful, which raises the question of what...
Make Copenhagen a starting point
How can the popular movements involved in climate change become a social movement for building a sustainable society? Tord Bjork argues there will be no agreement in Copenhagen with substantial content that will bring about changes necessary for stopping
Nonviolent action.net
We are scholars, activists, students, researchers, trainers, teachers, adherents, advocates of nonviolent action.
Nonviolence 101: an experience based manual
In the hope that interchange of the growing number of course syllabi and study outlines on nonviolence might be of mutual benefit to activists and academics — encouraging university-level-competence in nonviolence classes and courses…
Resources for activists and organizers
Joshua Kahn Russell’s great resource collection of learning resources, including some from the Energy Action Coalition and Rainforest Action Network.
Bringing down a Dictator (documentary)
This documentary examines the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in October, 2000 by an ingenious nonviolent strategy of honest elections and massive civil disobedience.
A Force More Powerful (documentaries)
Award winning documentaries tracing the history of nonviolent conflicts around the world.