Peace requires long-term advocacy, collaboration with communities and the support of people like you

  Mahatma Gandhi’s disciplined methods of peaceful protest mobilized millions and reshaped colonial policies. His commitment to civil disobedience provides a timeless blueprint for sustainable revolution, influencing movements worldwide.

  Led by figures who championed nonviolence, this campaign challenged systemic inequality with unwavering resolve. Its innovative use of peaceful protests demonstrates how ethical resistance can dismantle deeply rooted social issues.

  Nonviolent perseverance played a key role in ending institutionalized racial segregation. This movement stands as an enduring reminder that peaceful resistance can pave the way for lasting reconciliation and societal transformation.

 Led by Lech Wałęsa, this trade union used strikes and noncooperation to challenge Communist rule, paving the way for the end of the Communist regime in 1989. It emphasized strategic negotiation and unified action to challenge oppressive regimes. Its effects continue to resonate, fostering democratic reforms across Europe.

 A swift, peaceful uprising that ended decades of authoritarian rule, this movement highlights the effectiveness of nonviolent action in steering societies towards liberal democracy and long-term stability.

Millions of Filipinos engaged in prayerful mass street demonstrations to protest election fraud, corruption, and human rights abuses under the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship. The movement successfully toppled the Marcos regime and peacefully transitioned power to Corazon Aquino, restoring democracy to the Philippines.

Led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, the movement used boycotts and hunger strikes to protest poor working conditions, securing union contracts and better wages for farmworkers.  

Citizens in the Baltic states held mass demonstrations where they sang national songs—which were banned under Soviet rule—to express their desire for sovereignty. This sustained nonviolent pressure led to all three countries regaining independence from the Soviet Union by 1991 without significant bloodshed.

Community builds strength, stability, and creates resilience -- it always has and it always will.  Community is family,, neighbors, associates at work, organizations - people coming together with a shared vision - to feel safe, to reduce violence, to promote peace, to "think globally, act locally."  Community can be the simple act of sitting at the dinner table and talking about accomplishments, concerns of the day, and what plans you've created.  Key attributes of community include trust, effective communications, active engagement, mutual support, a sense of belonging, inclusivity, diversity, and collective action. 

"Community resilience is the ability to prepare for hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover from disruptions.  Building resilience isn't just abut anticipating the next apocalypse - it's about preparing for loss of income, higher prices for groceries, another pandemic...BBC on their Connections series interviews the "preppers."  Learn more from community resilience guidebooks:  https://www.preventionweb.net/publication/documents-and-publications/guidebook-community-resilience; https://www.nist.gov/community-resilience/planning-guide

There are websites which provide instructions to  build a "ready bag", an Evacuation Plan, a Communications Plan, actions to provide for family pets, livestock, and tools you will need to survive.  In the US, FEMA.gov , trained teams provide workshops. We will add more resources throughout the year.  Each country has its own processes for emergency response.  Make sure you know what's available regionally and locally. For ready bags - 

https://www.ready.gov/collection/emergency-supply-kit-checklist. 

There are interactive maps in each region of the world to determine climate risk.  https://www.germanwatch.org/en/cri, https://impactlab.org/map/#usmeas=absolute&usyear=1986-2005&gyear=1986-2005.  There are interactive maps which combine both climate and conflict vulnerability: https://climate-conflict.org/www .  In the US: https://resilience.climate.gov/, https://www.fema.gov/flood-maps/products-tools/national-risk-index.

As temperatures rise, tree canopy is proven to lower temperatures.  If you live in an area with few to no trees, you can mitigate for high temperatures  by planting trees to increase shaded areas and/or you can lobby your city officials to add trees to mitigate for what's known as an Urban Heat Island. Review mitigation guidelines with your community based on your risk level for flooding, wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes...Over the next months we will add more mitigation resources.

Developing a Communications Plan and securing tools to stay in communication during and after a cataclysmic event is essential to remaining resilient.  There are many reasons where family members may separate; where you may need to know about road closures, a wildfire's movements, sudden changes in evacuation orders and to do that you will need a hand-crank radio, two-way phones.  In an emergency cell towers and power may be shut off.  Most states have emergency information.