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Team-building
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Nonviolent Action for Social Change
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 Third-party Nonviolent Intervention |
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Making Better Trainings
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Third-party Nonviolent Intervention |
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Find more tools in our TPNI training manual: Opening Space for Democracy. |
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Accompaniment Role-Plays
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| | Looking for some role-play ideas for teaching accompaniment / unarmed bodyguards? Here are some ideas we collected for our training manual.
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Enlisting Allies Tag Team
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| |  What to do when confronted with a crowd ready to riot or an imminent police invasion? Well, if you're alone or only in a small group: get allies! In this exercise participants get to practice enlisting allies rapidly through quick glances and trying different techniques.
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Confidence in the Face of Violence Series
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| |  How to help participants handle their anxiety about entering a violent confrontation? This tool is designed to walk participants through a series of increasing challenges to help them gain confidence in working in violent settings, to stay more aware in the midst of physical conflict.
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Fishbowl Observation Challenge
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| |  A tool to assist people to notice more in the midst of conflict. Great practice for training observers, protestors, and anyone wanting to stay aware in the middle of conflicts.
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Gummy Bear Exercise
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| |  A neat way to get into issues of stress/trauma in the field and dealing with re-entry -- and with gummy bears!
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Intelligence Collection Drill
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| |  Daniel's favorite named tool, this drill teaches security skills/concepts, cultural sensitivity, information and threat analysis, and decision-making. It's an energetic tool as the team gathers information to uncover whether it's becoming a target by the government in this extended role-play.
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Pantomime for Three Applications of Nonviolent Action
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| | Three applications of nonviolent action: social change, social defense, third-party nonviolent intervention. How are they different? How does TPNI differ from the other types -- and how does that different show up in the field? This exercise addresses those questions.
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Peripheral Vision Milling
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| |  Participants practice expanding their vision and paying attention to what's around them. It's a quick skill development tool.
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Presence Skills Arena
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| | Use role-plays in your training? This skills arena gives participants maximum practice and feedback repeatedly. This tool was created by Daniel Hunter and George Lakey especially for the training manual and is one of their favorites.
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Spectrum of Peacework
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| | While third-party nonviolent intervention and other peace team work is becoming more common, it's still a challenge: how to explain our work to others? Internationally, the framing of peacebuilding, peacemaking and peacekeeping is widely used. This tool helps fieldworkers relate that framework to their actual work in the field.
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Deterrence Relay Race
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| |  Here's a new tool designed by Training for Change that's being picked up around the world. It's goal: To give participants an insight into Third Party Nonviolent Intervention through participation in a scenario based on a real-life situation -- and still be lively! (Has been used in groups ranging from middle-school to college students to professional peace team organizations.)
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