Build A Movement's mission is to promote nonviolent activism and strengthen the capacity of people-power movements and civil society around the world.
BAM’s operations can be summarized under four objectives:
1. Researching strategic nonviolence, civil resistance and grassroots organizing to identify best practices for civil society activists seeking to promote democracy, human rights and social change.
2. Analyzing ongoing nonviolent movements around the world to formulate recommendations for organizers and to allow policy-makers and international organizations to better understand and support them.
3. Developing educational material and digital tools for civil society activists to be better equipped in the face of authoritarianism, oppression and violence.
4. Providing on-the-ground training to activists and teaching classes on university campuses to transfer knowledge on movement building, democratization and civil society activism.
BAM’s operations can be summarized under four objectives:
1. Researching strategic nonviolence, civil resistance and grassroots organizing to identify best practices for civil society activists seeking to promote democracy, human rights and social change.
2. Analyzing ongoing nonviolent movements around the world to formulate recommendations for organizers and to allow policy-makers and international organizations to better understand and support them.
3. Developing educational material and digital tools for civil society activists to be better equipped in the face of authoritarianism, oppression and violence.
4. Providing on-the-ground training to activists and teaching classes on university campuses to transfer knowledge on movement building, democratization and civil society activism.
Location: United States, District of Columbia, Washington
Mentions in press and media 1
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.11.2017 | Civic tech founders offer four takes on the ‘panic button’ | In these uncertain times, it may help to have an app with a panic button to alert a prearranged list of contacts in case things get out of hand. Four founders who demonstrated at last week’s Public Good App House Festival at the Shaw Neighb... |