Workshop at the European Peace Action forum in Malmö 2008

From War Resisters International:

As part of the EPA, War Resisters' International organised a session of trainings in nonviolence, focusing on different parts of a nonviolent movement – from preparing for a single action, over the development of a campaign up to looking at a movement at a whole.

The session began with an introduction by WRI Council member Stellan Vinthagen. Following this, it was split into three parallel sessions: preparing for action, facilitated by Inez Louwagie and Martin Smedjebak, tools for campaign development, facilitated by Stellan Vinthagen and Javier Garate, and Movement Action Plan, facilitated by Marcus Armstrong and Andreas Speck.

In total about 60 persons participated in the nonviolence training sessions, and generally it showed that it is possible at an event such as the ESF to not just listen and discuss, but also to get more practical and do training.