Nonviolent Direct Action

Alliance of Community Trainers offers trainings in all aspects of organizing and mass direct action: strategic planning, campaign building, effective action planning, tactics for actions, street health and safety, nonviolence, and civil disobedience. They aim to support the goals of the organizers and participants and meet the specific needs of each community and situation.

Nonviolence International seeks to build a global culture of nonviolence. They have resources in Arabic, Spanish and Korean, in addition to English.

The Nonviolence Training Hub can direct you to a variety of trainers who offer instruction in the principles of nonviolence, using nonviolence for social change, nonviolent communication and other topics.

Organizing for Power, Organizing for Change is a comprehensive website managed by Lisa Fithian, former National Co-Chair of UFPJ and a trainer with the Alliance of Community trainers. It has resources for organizers, activists, students, journalists, and anyone seeking to create positive social change. Topics addressed include anti-oppression, researching corporations, institutions, and other power-holders, action planning and movement building.

Pace e Bene – Campaign Nonviolence is a long-term movement to build a culture of peace by mainstreaming active nonviolence and by joining with people, organizations, and movements everywhere in the to abolish war, end poverty and racism, reverse climate change and environmental destruction, and challenge all violence.

Ruckus Society trains and assists activists in learning the skills they need to practice nonviolent direct action safely and effectively.

School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) is a nonviolent grassroots movement that stands in solidarity with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, to close the SOA and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.

Training for Change is a capacity building organization for activists and organizers. It has supported groups in taking direct action, building strong teams and organizations, and working at the grassroots, including anti-gentrification community groups, training for union leaders, and de-escalation skills for immigrant rights groups resisting deportation.

War Resisters League (WRL) is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the U.S. and has been resisting war at home and war abroad since 1923. WRL offers extensive resources for training in nonviolence, including suggested reading, exercises, and workshop curricula on tactics and strategy, handling conflict through nonviolence, and strategic organizing using an anti-oppression and cross-movement approach.