Opening Space for Democracy: Third-Party Nonviolent Intervention Training Curriculum

This is a training model designed to be a "core training" in which participants learn the general skills for third-party nonviolent intervention (TPNI) work, defined as "civil society defending civil society through nonviolent intervention, ...groups... springing up to protect the right of people to work for social change." The online manual is an abridged version of the book for public use. The complete book includes more extensive evaluation, enhancement of training strategies, theory, handouts, and tools for each of the modules and threads involved in training for TPNI.

Table of Contents

"Introduction
Using the publication
1. Explanation of the core training
2. What is third-party nonviolent intervention: defining accompaniment,
interposition, observing/monitoring, and presence
3. Skills this curriculum covers: core proficiencies
Training Curriculum
Training Curriculum at a glance

Week 1
Day 1: Orientation to the organization, training, and building a group for learning
Day 2: More capacity building, culture, team-building
Day 3: Background for TPNI
Day 4: More theory of TPNI and personal well-being skills
Day 5: Introduction of Accompaniment
Day 6: More accompaniment, rank work, and de-escalation skills
Day 7: Accompaniment Simulation

Week 2
Day 8: Finishing debrief of accompaniment simulation; facilitation skills
Day 9: Security (report-writing, information flow, relating to others) and Conflict Resolution
Day 10: Introduction to monitoring/observing and moving the team forward
Day 11: More security, personal reflection, and preparation for upcoming simulation
Day 12: More monitoring/observing and understanding the organizational structure.
Day 13: Monitoring/Observing Simulation!
Day 14: Mid-training check-in, evaluation and moving the group forward

Week 3
Day 15 and 16: Rotating Sessions: CISD, Rank and Privilege, Driving Skills, Spiritual well-being and First Aid
Day 17: Power analysis and its use in conflict situations, plus de-stressing
Day 18: Introducing Presence
Day 19: Deepen Presence
Day 20: Introducing Interpositioning
Day 21: Interposition Simulation

Week 4
Day 22: Life in the Field; Professionalism; and skilling up in any area

Day 23: Final day: Review, Evaluation and Closing ceremony
Evaluating the training
Appendices"