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“Not all good things come together, and we can't have it all tomorrow. Remarkable interveners understand that building peace sometimes requires baby steps, and they look to local people as a guide for which foot to start on.”

International PeacePeacebuildingGrassroots OrganizingGrassroots AdvocacyInternational Intervention
Book:The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
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“The establishment is in crisis. Popular opinion is on our side. But we have to step out of our comfortable clubhouse and into the terrain of politics. The little clubhouse called "activism" is moldy and decaying. We no longer fit inside of its self-defeating walls. We have to walk away from the sideshow if we want to seize the main stage. This is not about "selling out" or "watering down" our politics or becoming "less radical". There is nothing "radical" about an atachment to outsiderness and marginality. And what is more radical than believing that everyday people can come together and organize a collective vehicle powerful enough to remake the world?”

PoliticsStrategyOrganizational CultureOrganizational LeadershipGrassroots Organizing
Book:Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals
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“It's daughters playing soccer with the children of the rival group, sons marrying outsiders, aunts trading with longstanding enemies, and individuals of all backgrounds sharing a market, hospital, school, or art center with the people they've been told to hate. In their day-to-day lives, ordinary people often engage in actions that observers view as banal and unimportant, when in fact these everyday acts help establish relationships that can prevent local outbreaks of violence and, at times, serve as the basis to deal with conflict.”

PeaceConflict ResolutionInternational PeacePeacebuildingGrassroots OrganizingBottom Up
Book:The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
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“Many domestic activists focus their efforts on top-down changes such as national elections and state policies--and despair when they fail to reach their goals....Bottom-up activism can help address the racial, ethnic, religious, and political issues that divide not just places like Congo or Colombia, but also the societies of non-war countries.”

ActivismGrassroots OrganizingBottom UpGrassroots Advocacy
Book:The Frontlines of Peace: An Insider's Guide to Changing the World
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