Compiled by nonviolent activists from around the world.

This document is the product of a two-day workshop held in New York City among more than a dozen domestic nonviolent resistance activists, scholars, donors, and aid practitioners. The purpose of their meeting was to re-conceptualize the methods and tools by which external actors can and are supporting nonviolent resistance abroad. They were asked to think big and small—to identify any support, no matter how contentious or impractical—that could potentially affect the work of nonviolent resistance activists confronting dictatorship. Their ambition was not to advocate a specific method or tool to help support democracy, but rather, to get people thinking about a larger and more creative range of options for how to assist nonviolent resistance to dictatorship.