Guide
2021
The Path of Most Resistance
A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns, Second Edition
By Ivan Marović
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About the book
The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns is a practical guide for activists and organizers of all levels, who wish to grow their resistance activities into a more strategic, fixed-term campaign. It guides readers through the campaign planning process, breaking it down into several steps and providing tools and exercises for each step. Upon finishing the book, readers will have what they need to guide their peers through the process of planning a campaign. This process, as laid out in the guide, is estimated to take about 12 hours from start to finish.
The guide is divided into two parts. The first lays out and contextualizes campaign planning tools and their objectives. It also explains the logic behind these tools, and how they can be modified to better suit a particular group’s context. The second part provides easily reproducible and shareable lesson plans for using each of those tools, as well as explores how to embed the tools in the wider planning process.
The Second Edition includes chapters on tactics and running a tactical planning workshop, and an Introduction by Hardy Merriman.
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Catalan, Farsi, French, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish, Urdu, Vietnamese
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Activists
About the author
Ivan Marović
Ivan Marovic was one of the leaders of Otpor, the student resistance movement that played an important role in the downfall of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia. After the successful democratic transition in Serbia, Marovic began consulting with various pro-democracy groups worldwide and became one of the leading practitioners in the field of strategic nonviolent conflict.
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Una guía práctica para activistas y organizadores de todos los niveles que desean hacer crecer sus actividades de resistencia noviolenta en una campaña más estratégica y de duración determinada. Guía a los lectores a través del proceso de planificación de la campaña, dividiéndolo en varios pasos y proporcionando herramientas y ejercicios para cada uno. Al terminar el libro, los lectores tendrán lo que necesitan para guiar a sus compañeros en el proceso de planificación de una campaña, que, tal y como se describe en la guía, dura unas 12 horas de principio a fin.
