War Resisters' International nonviolence programme
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The Nonviolence Programme is one of the two main programme areas for the WRI office and network, and encompasses two projects: the campaign against war profiteers and the nonviolence resources project. A full description of the project is available on this site in English, German, and Spanish; a leaflet is available in English (HTML or PDF) and German (HTML or PDF).
The Global Initiative against War Profiteers is a central part of the nonviolence programme, and is intended to encourage transnational work around the issues of arms trade, military contracting, and financial services to the war machine.
Nonviolence Resources
The Nonviolence Resources project is -- among other things -- compiling a nonviolence training handbook. Visit the resource project's page on the WRI Wiki.
Papers from recent and forthcoming projects and conferences
Nonviolence Training Exchange
Bilbao, Basque Country, 26-29 October 2008, preceding WRI Council meeting
War Starts from Europe
14-15 November 2008 days of action against the European military infrastructure.
European Social Forum 2008
17-21 September 2008 in Malmö, Sweden. WRI will be cooperating with the European Peace Action(EPA) peace forum within the ESF.
- General information page (and list of pre-forum peace actions): English
- Agenda and workshop descriptions: English
NATO Game Over
WRI and the Belgian WRI section Vredesactie will be organising a seminar on "military globalisation and nonviolent resistance in Europe" in March 2008, following the NATO Game Over direct action on the 22nd.
Women Trainers' Consultation
October 2004 in Chiang Mai, Thailand (co-organised by WRI Women's Working Group and IFoR Women Peacemakers' Program)
WRI at the G-8 protests
WRI and the World Social Forum
WSF 2007, Nairobi
WRI and the European Social Forum
ESF 2006, Athens
ESF 2004, London
Index page (multilingual)
- "Call to anti-militarists and pacifists to come to the European Social Forum" can be read here in English, German, Spanish, and Norwegian.
- A list of relevant workshops is here in English with a selection in Spanish.
- Volunteering opportunities at WRI before and during the forum in English, German, and Spanish.
- Press release announcing WRI's call for an antimilitarist mobilisation || English | Deutsch | español | français
- The Broken Rifle No.63: European Social Forum
The European Union constitution
- A military constitution for the European Union? or: The European Union too is on a course towards war by Tobias Pflüger of the German-based Informationsstelle Militarisierung. Available on this site in English, German, Greek, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Polish, and Spanish.
- Europe in Bad Constitution; a call for a campaign on 29 October 2004, available in English, German, and Spanish.
Collected papers on nonviolence training
- George Lakey, A Manifesto for Nonviolent Revolution (1972).
- Michael Randle, Towards Liberation. From War Resistance, Vol.3 No.9 (1st quarter 1975).
- From the WRI conference Nonviolent Struggle and Social Defence (Bradford, England 1990)
- Colophon and table of contents
- Shelley Anderson and Janet Larmore, Introduction
- Petra Kelly, Why haven't peace movements taken social defence seriously?
- Jean-Marie Muller, Why and how to work with governments
- Gene Sharp, Transitions to civilian-based defence
- Marko Hren, Yugoslavia: the past and the future
- Maria Serena I Diokno, People Power: The Philippines
- Andrew Rigand Nafez Assaily, The Intifada
- Jan Kavan, Ruth Sormova, and Michaela Neubauerova, Czechoslovakia's nonviolent revolution
- Narayan Desai, Nonviolent people's struggles in India
- Leung Wing Yue, Lau Bing Sum, and Liu Wei Ping, China: a time of hope met by horror
- Fernando Aliaga Rojas, How we won democracy in Chile
- Elzbieta Rawicz-Oledzka, A new style of Polish protest
- Vanessa Griffen, Social defence against coups: the case of Fiji
- Julio Quan, Low Intensity Conflict: Central America
- Jacqui Boulle, Lawrence Sibisi and Rob Goldman, Low Intensity Conflict: South Africa
- Brian Martin, Social Defence: Arguments and actions
- From the WRI conference Nonviolence and Social Empowerment (Orissa, India 2001)
- Introduction and table of contents
- Vesna Terselic, Empowerment: just another phrase?
- Vesna Terselic, Empowerment: nur ein neues Wort?
- Vesna Terselic, L'empowerment : juste une autre expression ?
- Vesna Terselic, "Fortalecimiento": ¿sólo una palabra más?
- Cecilia Moretti, What Power Do We Want?
- Pushpa Bhave, Empowerment
- Andreas Speck, Collective identities: trap or tool for empowerment?
- Andreas Speck, Identidades colectivas: ¿trampa o instrumento para el fortalecimiento?
- Andreas Speck, Kollektive Identitäten: Falle oder Mittel zum Empowerment?
- Howard Clark, Be realistic, demand the impossible
- Andreas Speck, Empowerment: International Dimensions
- Roberta Bacic, Fear--a sign that we are alive
- Kris Hakena, Peace in Bougainville and the Work of the Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency
- Bojan Aleksov, Resisting the War in Yugoslavia: Thoughts on Empowerment and Disillusionment
- Robert L. Rabin Siegel, Paradise Invaded: The U.S. Navy Bombs Puerto Rico
- Robert L. Rabin Siegal, Contaminación Militar en la Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico y la Respuesta del Pueblo
- Jørgen Johansen, Deterrent Nonviolence
- Chandi Prasad Bhatt, The Chipko Movement
- Bijay Singh, Dalit Organising in India
- Cesar Bedoya Martin Rodriguez, The Experience of the Youth Network of Medellin Colombia
- Keith Goddard, Inside Out
- Howard Clark, Nonviolent struggle in Kosovo
- Dawn Plummer, The Movimento Sem-Terra in Brazil
- Khoboso Nthunya, Self-Employed Women's Union, South Africa
- Khoboso Nthunya, Self-Employed Women's Union (SEWU), Africa del Sur
- José Araya Cornejo, El conflicto de Mehuín
- Christopher Ney, Democracy In Seattle's Streets
- Saswati Roy, Swadhina
- Marwan Darweish, The Intifada: from violence to more violence
- Senthil Ram, The Tibetan Nonviolent Resistance: Empowerment in an Extraordinary Situation
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