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Nonviolent Peace Training as a Means of Linking Research and Action
on Monday 28 January 2019
on Monday 28 January 2019
Training for peace action is a fairly new phenomenon. By training I mean the systematic sharing of skills and knowledge. Activists in former years could learn by apprenticing themselves to experienced leaders, or could pay special attention to those conferences and institutes featuring nonviolent organizers. But there was nowhere they could go to get systematic, long-term training.
The burst of nonviolent action in the nineteen-sixties stimulated people in a number of countries to seek (...)