Managing Repression & Violent Flanks
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A short hand out detailing the keys to managing backfire tactics on the opposition side.
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A short piece by Johnathan Pinckney that brings to attention the amount of discipline one needs to maintain nonviolence amidst repression and external forces.
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Foreign Policy op-ed by Erica Chenoweth that provides a good starting point to reframe what “resistance” means in the world today.
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Frontline Defender’s Guide on designing and producing a security plan for human rights groups that mitigates risks of violence—assault, torture, imprisonment. The guide follows a systematic approach for assessing the security situation and developing risk and vulnerability reduction strategies and tactics.
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By Jared Genser. Download LINK
This book serves as an extensive, comprehensive review of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, serving as an informative body of work as well as a guide to practice for scholars and activists, particularly on arbitrary detention.
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Steve Chase’s digital book on the issue of “fake activists,” or agent provocateurs, how they are used to illegitimate social movements, and how organizers can combat it.
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While the shorter-length Security Workbook published by the same organization covers safety, this is a more extensive guidebook for understanding, assessing and mitigating security risks for human rights defenders. Contents include common security incidents, preventing and reacting to security incidents, security in an armed context, etc.
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This report from the Int’l Center on Nonviolent conflict attempts to investigate the factors that drive governments to crack down on and kill their own civilians, and how nonviolent resistance mitigates the likelihood of mass killings.
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Book chapter in Legacy and Future of Nonviolence. This is a book chapter from Kumar & Low’s ‘Legacy and Future of Nonviolence’, attempting to disprove the commonly held belief that nonviolent resistance end up being eventually ineffective against an extremely ruthless opponent. It shows how one can actually leverage an unequal relationship in a nonviolent campaign.
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Speaks about alternatives to common protest strategies that people can use even in repressive environments.
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By Physicians for Human Rights. A practical guide on how to protect oneself from tear gas and other non-lethal weapons used in protest by police/law enforcement agents.
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By Erica Chenoweth. Speaks about how violent tactics are more ineffective than civil disobedience and mas protest tactics.
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This blog post is about how women continue to mobilize despite violent patriarchal backlash in Colombia. The five strategies that women use are: be brave, be neutral, be a good neighbour, draw on silence, and be visible.
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By Julia Zulver. Speaks about how the pandemic worsened women organizers’ work in Colombia by heightening their risks and making their situation precarious.
“Nonviolent” does not equal “passive.”
Ana B., 2019 IGLI Participant