The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns, 2nd Edition

by Ivan Marovic

The Path of Most  A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns is a practical guide for activists and organizers of all levels, who wish to grow their resistance activities into a more strategic, fixed-term campaign. It guides readers through the campaign planning process, breaking it down into several steps and providing tools and exercises for each step. Upon finishing the book, readers will have what they need to guide their peers through the process of planning a campaign. This process, as laid out in the guide, is estimated to take about 12 hours from start to finish. The guide is divided into two parts. The first lays out and contextualizes campaign planning tools and their objectives. It also explains the logic behind these tools, and how they can be modified to better suit a particular group’s context. The second part provides easily reproducible and shareable lesson plans for using each of those tools, as well as explores how to embed the tools in the wider planning process.

Genres: Activism

134 pages, Paperback

Published March 3, 2021

Reviews

[Chris Geiger]

USA pro-democracy activists TAKE NOTE! Highly recommended for anyone working to support egalitarian democracy against impossible odds (they are always impossible). Ivan Marovic was a founder of Otpor, the Serbian student organization that succeeded in overthrowing dictator Milosovic. This is a no-nonsense, clear guide with illustrations, templates, and training activities all aimed at assembling a successful nonviolent campaign. This is not a book about the Serbian story, it is a practical manual.