Peter Dougherty - Metta Peace Team
- Know how to be in a community together, our lives depend on each other
- We weren't starting an organization but a movement. Unarmed civilian protection and Restorative justice.
- Be honest. Be open to criticism, hear the truth.
- No one is brilliant enough to be wrong 100% of the time.
David Hartsough - Peace Brigades, Peaceworkersus,
- Reading & training: roleplaying, hassle lines, practice. Why Civil Resistance Works by Chenoweth and Stephan
- Appeal to the hearts & conscience of the common people
- Cahoots in Eugene OR
- Willingness to suffer is crucial, not leaving the people remaining on the scene who need protection, protection of ourselves is not top of our agenda. Protect local civil and human rights workers.
- Strategic thinking is important: look at the dynamics and the challenges and how to make a positive difference. Sustained presence is crucial.
- Long-term studies: where has this work been in the past
Mary Hanna - Metta Peace Team
- Religious groups
- Rotary Clubs: looking for speakers
- Book stores
- Social Media: keep in the public eye
- Be searchable, SEO
- Event: press release & photos, videos
- Independent media, court local media
- Visible: magnets, bumper stickers, pen
- Elevator pitch & business card
- Follow up: email list, projects, trainings
- Dinner parties, gatherings with food,
- Join other organizations
- Open door, open ear policy
- 3 paid staff, 3 volunteer staff
Mel Duncan - Nonviolent Peace Force
- Hold a focus on a vision that has occured and recurred, inviting people to be part of something emerging, communicate the sense of reality that is working, effective, growing
- Subsistance stipend: not many people can join, if we put ourselves in harm's way we should be paid as much as soldiers
- Volunteers - paid, benefits, healthcare
- Sense of attraction rather than promotion
- Always had more recruits than we could handle
- We're there not to do capacity development but capacity recognition.
- Mineapolis public schools stopped contact with police.
- Training: trauma awareness, psychological support with expert
- When staff leaves, continue psychosocial support (just for a few months)
- Change the knowledge-making system
- Work with people who need protection (Asian Pacific Islander)
- Relationships and connection over the good and the bad. Call donors we run out of money the next month. EU, Dutch government, UN agencies, Norway, Germany, UK, France, etc.
Rivera Sun - Pace e Bene
- Collaborate instead of divided & territorial: with nurses, flight staffs, subway transit worker. Get closer to that point of conflict. Any time activists stirring, we need to enhance community. Peace & justice centers, schools. In-kind donation, promoting their work.
- Most people don't know there's a nonviolent revolution going on.
- Look at our resources and start leveraging them on behalf of others, instead of waiting to be the expert
- General educaiton: happening consistently, every month,
- Advertising: take 8 impressions to get someone buy something. We don't sell but we need some reputation.
- Individuals can make a difference. Make the link between individual de-escalation & collective work.
Stephen Niamke -
- Peace is boring, not sexy
- Doing peacework does take courage, strategy
- Make presentations at city council meeting
- Recognize that the volunteer pays to be a part of the organization
- Don’t assume that they can see your passion
- People are busy. They are looking to jump in, but do not know how or when. They may question their own abilities.
- Leverage the skills within your group
- Learn from your mistakes - You will make them and you should
- Conflict is good.
- Collaborate with like minded/hearted organizations
- Use the Shanti Sena Network
- We need to be strategic from a geographic standpoint
Our Goal: Dr. King’s Beloved Community is a global vision in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and homelessness will not be tolerated because international standards of human decency will not allow it. Racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood.
Nonviolence News here: https://nonviolencenews.org/
rivera@riverasun.com
https://lpe.ku.edu/osher-home
Shanti Sena Network of 30 North American organizations practicing and promoting unarmed civilian protection and strategies
Join the Shanti Sena Network: https://forms.gle/VwgDpGAr5JBAKCyd9
stephenniamke@gmail,com or stephenn.mpt@gmail.com or 540-519-4211
Seeking people who might like to be part of a group reading or criticizing the manual which I have been writing, underway, in-process, as well as Nonviolence 101 Manual mss publisher - indexing editor; If skilled in green nonviolence & embedding pagination for table of content, index - 375 pages +; See, say, https://bit.ly/2Jeyxuo; https://cutt.ly/IrbBTYe; & https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-hubers-8a8439184s.
A database of unarmed civilian peacekeeping/protection was developed by my colleague, Randy Janzen https://selkirk.ca/unarmed-civilian-peacekeeping-database, ranjanzen@gmail.com
i. Workshop reports - https://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/what-we-do/developing-and-expanding-the-field Reports from the regional good practices workshops
- Be the best logistice person there is. No need to go to the front.
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| Adapated from The National Drug Abuse Center (1978) training manual |
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