Non-Violent resource center

1. Nonviolence! Peacebuilding Training Handbook, by the Centre for Nonviolent Action Belgrade | Sarajevo, 2018.  “This Handbook is intended, above all, for people living in countries with a legacy of violence, hatred and fear who want to transform their societies and communities with a view to making them more just and better for all. It was written from an insider’s perspective, providing neither a bird’s-eye view nor observations from the sidelines, but rather the perspective of peace activists whose struggle takes them across borders and into the spaces between communities in conflict. Its starting point is the perspective of those affected by violence who are seeking to prevent the spiraling of hatred and revenge”.
2. There are realistic alternatives – יש חלופות מציאותיות , Jane Sharp, Einstein Institute, published by Shatil (in Hebrew), 2003.  There is another technique of struggle. Such an alternative to violent confrontation is a realistic option. It is often forgotten that war and other forms of violence have not always involved the conduct of violent conflicts. In many situations, over hundreds of years and across cultural boundaries, a different method of struggle was sometimes used. This method did not rely on turning the other cheek, but on the ability to insist and resist powerfully to powerful opponents. –  קיימת טכניקה נוספת של מאבק. חלופה כזאת לעימות אלים היא אופציה מציאותית. לעיתים קרובות שוכחים שמלחמה וצורות אחרות של אלימות לא תמיד היו כרוכים בעריכתם של עימותים חריפים. בהרבה מאוד מצבים, משך מאות בשנים ומעבר לגבולות התרבותיים, הופעלה לפעמים שיטה אחרת של מאבק. שיטה זו לא הסתמכה על הפניית הלחי השניה, אלא על היכולת להתעקש ולהתנגד בעוצמה ליריבים רבי עוצמה.
3. What Nonviolent Action Is.  Albert Einstein Institution (website). Nonviolent action is a technique of sociopolitical action for applying power in a conflict without the use of physical violence. Nonviolent action may involve acts of omission (e.g., people refusing to perform acts they usually perform, are expected by custom to perform, or are required by law or regulation to perform), acts of commission (e.g., people performing acts that they do not usually perform, are not expected by custom to perform, or are forbidden to preform), or a combination of the two. As a technique, therefore, nonviolent action is not passive. It is not inaction. It is action that is nonviolent. These acts comprise a multitude of specific methods of action or “nonviolent weapons.”
4. Nonviolence Trainer’s Resource Manual By Pt’chang. This manual was produced by Pt’chang in 2005 as part of The Nonviolence Training Project. 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. The full manual can be downloaded from the box at the bottom of this web page.
5. Handbook for Training in Nonviolence and Social Transformation This handbook is part of the training material on mobilization for change put together by the International Institute for Nonviolent Action NOVACT. It has been conceived as support for carrying out workshops directed to people actively engaged in the design, organization, and putting forward of campaigns or nonviolent social movements for social justice. More precisely, this edition is designed for a series of 14 and 18-hour workshops that will be carried out with social movements and campaigns on both shores of the Mediterranean, especially for Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, and Spain.
6. PEOPLE POWER IN THE HOLY LAND: HOW POPULAR NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE CAN TRANSFORM THE ISRAELIPALESTINIAN CONFLICT by Maria J. Stephan, Journal of Public and International Affairs, Volume 14/Spring 2003 Copyright  2003, the Trustees of Princeton University – This article argues that an alternative strategy based on civilian-led, nonviolent struggle, or “people power,” is needed to transform the conflict. It analyzes tactics and strategies of collective nonviolent direct action and their relevance to ending a situation of occupation.
7. Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group Written by the Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group in 1983, and published by them in cooperation with War Resisters’ International (1983)  It has become clear to us that resistance to war and to the use of nuclear weapons is impossible without resistance to sexism, to racism, to imperialism and to violence as an everyday pervasive reality. There is a profound relationship between the fact that individual women are commonly attacked and beaten up and that a nuclear war threatens the entire world. Both feminism and nonviolence express the belief that the world we know is not as it should be and this can be changed
8. YOUTH AND NON VIOLENCE IN GUINEA Search for Common Ground in Guinea Final Narrative Report To USAID Guinea  (SFCG 2010) The overall project goal is that, by the project’s completion, youth in the targeted areas use non-violent methods to resolve conflict. This project was based on the concept that information is a powerful driver of change, and has two objectives: · To increase the knowledge of youth in conflict management techniques, human rights and their civic responsibilities; · To build the capacity of youth in the target areas to resist manipulation and the use of violence to resolve conflicts.
9. ANOTHER WAY Non-violence as a Mentality and Strategy in Palestine: Materials for Education, AEI-Open Windows Culture and Palestine Series Bethlehem, 2005 – This brochure is a reflection of our experiences during the last Intifada. They include the organization of a great many non-violent actions over the years. In “Youth, Non-Violence and the Land,” a project supported by the British Cafod and the Belgian Broederlijk Delen, we discussed our experiences for the purpose of designing a number of nonviolent action scenarios. The scenarios were developed during field trips in the Bethlehem-Jerusalem-Ramallah region of Palestine in the academic year 2004-5. Through investigation of the concrete details of organizing non-violent actions, and thinking through the various dilemmas involved, young Palestinians became aware of the potential for non-violent action. . THE BASIS: A MENTALITY OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE Usually we look at non-violence as a strategy, but it is a strategy based on a non-violent mentality and an inner peace-building practice.
10. Nonviolence as a Legitimate Means toward Peace in Palestine by Mubarak Awad Nonviolence International Nations that use armed struggles inherit dictatorships. Nations that use nonviolence inherit democracy. The term nonviolence has been used in many ways. It has been used to describe pacifism, a lifestyle, a set of beliefs, an instrument of power and a strategy for liberation, and a method of achieving economic empowerment. Our discussion refers to nonviolence as a means of affecting lasting change and resolving conflict.
11. Ten Steps that Transform Anger into Compassionate Connection by Neill Gibson, Shari Klein, Gary Baran and Sylvia Haskavitz of the Center for Nonviolent Communication.   Practicing Nonviolent Communication guides us to reframe the way we listen to others and express ourselves by focusing our consciousness on four areas: what we are observing, feeling, needing and what we are requesting to enrich our lives. In this context the word need defines those basic human needs we all share. The following is an abbreviated list of universal human needs as defined in Dr. Marshall Rosenberg’s book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (PuddleDancer Press, 1999):
12. Beyond persuasion – Challenge.Etgar tools for managing effective political discourse.  Beyond Persuasion is a model that produces a new dynamic of discourse between different groups in the Israeli public. The model is based on research in the field of social psychology and connects approaches of working with conflicts and tools of observational pedagogy. Through this combination, a space is created in which not only respect and listening are possible, but also a friendly challenge of fixed ways of thinking of all the involved opinions in the discourse. The workshops for learning the approach and the tools are held in the format of a concentrated workshop (3 sessions of 3 hours)
13. Countering misinformation online: This online workshop organized with ALLMEP members discusses the important role you as a nonprofit professional can play in spotting and tackling misinformation through your online channels. Below are some of the key takeaways from the session: 

• Pre-bunking can help you get ahead of misinformation before it sticks
• Timing and framing are key components for debunking misinformation
• Remember the “fact sandwich” 
• If you have to engage trolls and detractors, lead with facts
• Block or report abuse when it becomes nasty

   14.  USIP (SNAP) – synergizing nonviolent action and peacebuilding: This action guide seeks to build bridges between peacebuilding and nonviolent action practitioners so that methods are used strategically and effectively on the path toward conflict transformation. It shows how dialogue, direct-action skills, and approaches can be synergized to advance justice and sustainable peace. This guide is for trainers, facilitators, and other practitioners serving the many organizers, activists, mediators, negotiators, and peacebuilders who want to learn more about how to integrate nonviolent action and peacebuilding strategies in their work.

15. Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg – a Brief Introduction 2010 (10:41 m Video). Marshall Rosenberg, PhD has been effectively mediating conflicts throughout the world for more than 40 years. His method, Nonviolent Communication, has brought together warring factions as diverse as Irish Catholics and Protestants, Rwandan Hutus and Tutsis, Israelis and Palestinians as well as families and communities in conflict. His method is simply to enable both parties in conflict to listen with empathy to the authentic feelings and needs of the “other” without the need to blame and judge. Things can change when we feel heard as humans. The film clips assembled in this brief introduction are taken from a much larger documentary film project on finding human-to-human, heart-to-heart common ground beyond the realm of fixed beliefs. Please visit: BeyondBeliefFilm.org.