Handbooks

The War Resisters’ International’s  Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns is a 232 page toolbox of ideas and resources to support activists to run more effective campaigns. The original edition, published in 2009, was translated into over ten languages, including Spanish, German, Nepalese, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, and Arabic, and has been used by activists all over the world. The 2014 edition added 50 pages.

The second edition of the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns (2014) is nearly out of print. You can access it online here. We are working on a format that will be more conducive to printing individual sections. You can find a PDF available online here. While they last the paperback is for sale from our store.

The first edition of the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns (2009) has online versions  in English and Spanish organized by chapter. You can purchase a copy of the paperback from our store. 

War Resisters League’s Handbook for Nonviolent Action (1989), a 34 page booklet first printed in 1989, is quite dated in some of its language, particularly in the sections on oppression in the second half.  However, the front includes helpful description of affinity groups, consensus decision making, a legal flow chart, etc. It can be purchased on our store, and can be found at the Digital Library of Nonviolent Resistance at the Rutgers International Institute for Peace.