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Welcome to Turning the Tide

Turning the Tide nonviolence training course, Huddersfield. Our next open workshop, Celebrating Nonviolence is Saturday 16 June. It's the last one in our year course so it's a special one. The day runs from 9.45am with welcome coffee/tea, 10.15 start, 5.15pm finish. Booking essential. This is part of our September 2011 to June 2012 comprehensive course. General information about the course is here. Visit us on facebook :-)

 

George Lakey talk: Making Nonviolent Revolution

Monday 16 July, time tbc, at Friends House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ

 

Turning the Tide dvd We have revised and updated our widely used 2001 film, 'Nonviolence for a Change'. View it here, plus get guidance notes for holding your own screening.

 

Making Waves #23 Summer 2011 issue. Read about the banality of good - how our everyday actions can interrupt cycles and patterns of violence and build the world we dream of today ...

 

                                                                                                                                                                              rows of activists blockading

 

If you are interested in

  • positive change through nonviolent action,
  • nonviolence training,
  • information and resources on nonviolence,

then we hope you’ll find our website useful.

 

We are discovering new material and workshop activities all the time, so keep checking in with us.

 

 

 

Nonviolence for a change

All over the world, people join together to challenge injustice, overcome oppression and make a more just and peaceful society.

 

Turning the Tide promotes the understanding and use of nonviolence to help us become more effective.

 

Nonviolence is a way of actively confronting injustice. Not doing nothing, not responding violently, not running away; but struggling creatively to transform the situation. It's about doing conflict better; bringing about change without doing harm.

 

Turning the Tide takes its inspiration and learning from effective nonviolent movements like those of Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day, Greenham Women, environmental and economic justice movements, land rights nonviolent activists and many more. We offer workshops, speakers, resources, a journal and advice.

 

Principles of nonviolence

We don't have a definition of nonviolence because we've learned it means different things to different people, but we use the following principles as the basis for our work:

  • being willing to take action for justice without giving into or mimicking violence
  • respecting and caring for everyone involved in a conflict, including our opponent
  • refusing to harm, damage or degrade people / living things / the earth as a means of achieving goals
  • acting in ways consistent with the ends we seek
  • being prepared take suffering on ourself without inflicting it on others
  • believing that everyone is capable of change and no-one has a monopoly of the truth
  • recognising the importance of training so that nonviolence thinking and behaviour become part of our everyday lives.

Turning the Tide is a programme of Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW). QPSW works with and on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain [off-site link].