2-Day Workshop on Nonviolence

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Contents 1 Sample agenda – 2-day workshop 2 FIRST DAY 2.1 Session 1 2.2 Session 2 2.3 Session 3 2.4 Session 4 3 SECOND DAY 3.1 Session 1 3.2 Session 2 3.3 Session 3 3.4 Session 4

Sample agenda – 2-day workshop

FIRST DAY

Session 1

• 09.00 – Opener: Using Name Tags

• 09.20 – Opener: Expectations, Worries and Ground Rules

• 09.40 – Activity: The Nonviolence Sociogram

• 10.00 – CPA Questions + from Content Section I you can use Nonviolence and Nonviolent Direct Action, http://www.beyondintractability.org/essay/nonviolent_direct_action/

• 10.30 – Break

Session 2

• 11.00 – Activity: Five Pros, Five Cons

• 11.30 – CPA Exploring Content + from Content Section II you can use The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle, http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/TheRoleofPowerinNonviolentStruggle-English.pdf

• 12.30 – Lunch break

Session 3

• 14.00 – Activity: Countering Obedience

• 15.00 – Activity: Pillars of Oppression

• 15.30 – Break

Session 4

• 16.00 – Activity: Countering Sources of Power

• 17.25- Short evaluation of the first day

SECOND DAY

Session 1

• 09.00 – Quick review of the first day and feedback on evaluation

• 09.10 – Activity: The Ideal Community

• 10.30 - Break

Session 2

• 11.00 – Activity: Pragmatic, Principled, Reformist and Revolutionary

• 11.30 – CPA Let Them Present It based on: Helvey, Robert L., On Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: Thinking About the Fundamentals, Boston: The Albert Einstein Institution, 2004 (USIP, 2002), http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations1c31.html, Chapter 9, pp. 87-99.

• 12.30 – Lunch Break

Session 3

• 14.00 – Activity: Brainstorm and Prioritise

• 15.30 – Break

Session 4

• 16.00 – CPA For Example based on: Nonviolent resistance, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nonviolent_resistance&oldid=86904167

• 16.40 – Activity: Nonviolence Timeline

• 17.10 – Closer: Summary of contents introduced and workshop findings

• 17.20 – Workshop evaluation