Nonviolence for Change

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Networking with groups interested in using nonviolence for social change, coordination of workshops at gatherings such as Social Forums, making WRI's resources available to grassroots activist doing antimilitarist and globalisation from below.

In 2002, WRI Council member Oscar Huenchunao represented WRI at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, as did WRI Council member Jorgen Johansen, who also participated in 2003, and in Mumbai 2004. A number of WRI affiliates and other nonviolent groups are present at Social Forums, and other major events, or are involved in major activities of the movement for globalisation from below, such as Seattle, Genoa, Gleneagles, and others. Last year War Resisters' International coordinated a pacifist and antimilitarist presence at the Europena Social Forum in London in October 2004. It will be an important aspect of the Nonviolence Programme to expand on these activities, and to network much more actively with groups from the WRI network and beyond. It is important to make resources on nonviolence available to all those willing to use them, such as WRI affiliate War Resisters League did prior to the protest at the WTO meeting in Seattle, when it printed and distributed 6,000 copies of its Handbook for Nonviolent Action.