Practice and explore tools and approaches, including assessing trade-offs in sequencing engagement and pressure tactics, for pillars activation
TRAININGS
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Facilitator Guide
Includes:
Overview and Context
Tips and Tools for HOPE Workshop Facilitation
Sample Agendas with Facilitation Notes and Template Slide Deck
Checklists + Questions to Support Your Workshop Plan
Where to Go for Additional Support
Additional Resources
Contact Information
agendas & PRESENTATIONS
1.5 HOURS
2 HOURS
FULL DAY
Spectrum of Engagement
The Spectrum of Engagement tool helps us understand and grow the amount of people who believe repression and political violence have no place in our community and who are actively trying to counter it. People working to stop repression and political violence can make their efforts more effective by targeting specific individuals, groups, and organizations along this spectrum with actions that meet them where they are at.
HANDOUTS
Stakeholder Mapping
The Stakeholder Mapping tool helps you identify individuals, groups, and organizations who have a stake in keeping your community safe for everyone. It can provide insight into possible entry points for dialogue or coordination based on existing relationships, as well as new relationships that may need to be formed. It can also help you identify spoilers who benefit from repression and political violence and who may try to prevent stakeholder outreach and coordination.
Pillars of Support
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Repression and political violence are central aspects of the authoritarian playbook – authoritarians leverage them to build, consolidate, and maintain their power. The Pillars of Support tool helps us identify and analyze the organizations and institutions that enable authoritarianism. An authoritarian system’s political power ultimately depends on its legitimacy and the consent and cooperation of its citizens. These individuals may be organized in business groups, faith communities, civic/professional groups, labor unions, veterans’ groups, and others. These sources of support are represented by pillars in the example below. When individuals or stakeholders within these pillars withhold or withdraw their labor, buying power, technical skills, and knowledge, this can weaken the authoritarian system’s power base.
SWOT Analysis
The SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) tool can help you think through your, your organization, and/or your coalition’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities and threats you may encounter as part of your work to make repression and political violence backfire. This knowledge can help you identify best case scenarios, mobilization opportunities, missed opportunities, and worst case scenarios for more informed planning and effective resource use.
TOT Recordings
For access to these recordings, please contact info@endpoliticalviolence.org.
DAY ONE
DAY TWO
DAY THREE
Session 1, Tuesday 9/23/25
Session 2, Wednesday 9/24/25
Session 3, Thursday 9/25/25