The Unyielding Path: A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing Militant, Nonviolent Campaigns, by Ivan Marovic
Strategies for Peaceful Protests: Comprehensive Blueprint for Organizing Non-Violent Movements
Region: GlobalTarget Audience: Activists, organizers, and resistance groups
Disclaimer: The opinions, methods, and tactics discussed in this guide may not be suitable for all contexts or situations. Use this guide at your own discretion and in accordance with local laws and ethical standards.
Boot up your revolution! With "The Unyielding Path: A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing Militant, Nonviolent Campaigns" by Ivan Marovic, you'll have the strategic tools and methods at your fingertips to design unstoppable, nonviolent campaigns that knock despots off their thrones and transform societies.
In this no-nonsense guide, Marovic takes you through a comprehensive planning process, dissecting it into manageable steps and equipping you with a wealth of tools and exercises. By the end, you'll have what you need to steer your fellow revolutionaries through campaign planning, from the first scribbles on a napkin to the final battle cry.
The guide is split into two sections:
- Setting the Stage: This part explains the objectives and rationale behind various campaign planning tools, as well as illustrating how they can be customized to better fit your group's unique context.
- Workshopping Success: This section provides easily replicable and shareable lesson plans for leveraging each tool in a workshop setting, whether you're teaching participants about campaigns or strategizing a specific one.
"This planning guide includes a variety of instruments to help you navigate critical campaign questions, such as:
- What do you aim to achieve (campaign objective)?
- What will you say (campaign message)?
- What will you do (tactics)?
- What do you need in terms of resources and organization?
These tools are geared towards helping activists and organizers better understand their inner strengths and external environments, establish appropriate objectives, identify target audiences, and analyze their perceptions. They also assist in formulating messages and selecting optimal tactics for delivering that message. Each tool is introduced and explained in detail for those who have never used it before. This introduction is followed by a step-by-step breakdown of how to use the tool in a workshop, whether it's a training workshop for teaching participants about campaigns or a planning workshop aimed at designing a specific campaign." - pg 4
Contents
- Civil Resistance Campaigns - A Humble Beginning
- Case Study: Otpor's "He's Finished" and "It's Time" Campaigns
- SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats - Envisioning Your Present Abilities and the Climate
- Scenario Development: Foreseeing Potential Outcomes
- Smart Criteria: Establishing Strategic Goals
- Spectrum of Allies: Mapping Stakeholders and their Influence
- Case Study: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement
- Perception Box: Understanding Stakeholders' Beliefs and Feelings
- Brainstorming: Dreaming Up Tactics
- Cost-Benefit Analysis: Choosing the Best Course of Action
- Campaign Plan: Charting Your Course on Paper
- Campaign Blueprint (Template)
- Campaign Development Course - Elevating Your Craft
- Afterword - A Look Back at the Struggle
- Appendices - A Treasure Trove of Additional Resources and Tips
Campaigns can be tricky beasts. Unlike strategies, they require a high degree of specificity, clarity, and focus. They must endure through changing environments while bolstering long-term strategies. Unfortunately, evaluating their impact takes time, meaning that alterations may need to be made months after campaign initiation. - Ivan Marovic
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Foreign Languages
Arabic (مرشد شاطئ العدالة الجديد: دليل عمل كامبيان عدالة جديدة بالخطوات المدمجة)Catalan (El camí de la major resistència: un guia pas a pas per a planificar campanyes no violentes)Czech (Cesta k rezistenci: Kytice kroků k významnému operatelněmu úsilí)Dutch (De weg van de meeste weerstand: Een stap-voor-stapgids voor het plannen van geweldsloze campagnes)French (Le sentier de la résistance la plus forte: Une guidetèp par tèp pour la planification de campagnes non-violentes)German (Der Weg des stärksten Widerstandes: Ein Laufsteg für die Planung von gewaltfreien Kampagnen)Hebrew (Hamaapil hakamot hashuchot: A guidet for planning nonviolent campaigns in a piecemeal fashion)Italian (La strada della resistenza più forte: Una guida passo a passo per la pianificazione di campagne nonviolente)Korean (최대저항의 길: 정통적인 수단을 적용한 혁명의 작업지
- This guide, "The Unyielding Path: A Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing Militant, Nonviolent Campaigns," equips changemakers with resources for education-and-self-development and personal-growth, focusing on campaign planning and social change.
- The guide, designed for activists, organizers, and resistance groups worldwide, offers campaign strategy templates and workshops, helping groups navigate critical campaign questions like objectives, messages, tactics, and resources.
- By utilizing tools like SWOT Analysis, Scenario Development, and Brainstorming, activists can steer their fellow revolutionaries through the campaign planning process, transforming their visions into reality and working towards social change.
- The Appendices section of the guide serves as a treasure trove of additional resources and tips, providing a wealth of knowledge for those seeking to improve their campaign planning skills and bring about meaningful social change.
