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The International Nonviolence Training Fund (INTF) has been supporting common people speaking truth to power for 30 years. The INTF supports nonviolence trainings which are carried out by local organizations that are working to resist, challenge and transform oppresive societal structures and those in power. We support civil society groups globally who decide to step forward to challenge violence and the threat of violence, and structures which unfairly control resources and limit human rights.

NONVIOLENCE TRAINING SUPPORTED BY THE INTF CONTRIBUTE TO SOLUTIONS, which are locally focused and owned.  The pattern of building social structures that depend on violence or the threat of violence can be changed, and has been changed by ordinary people who undertake extraordinary action. Nonviolent social change campaigns have transformed communities and societies. But their success comes from both preparation, trainings and practice: it doesn’t just happen.  

Through grants and other forms of organizational support, INTF contributes to the success of  nonviolent campaigns by helping local organizations ensure that their members are prepared to carry out a campaign’s goals, even in the face of violence or its threats. If needed, INTF has enabled new organizations to work with more experienced nonviolence trainers as they prepare their nonviolence training.

In 2025, the INTF has entered a new phase in its work and established itself as an independent international organization, following many years as a project under the umbrella of a larger education organization. This independence provides the organization with more flexibility and more efficiency in the distribution of grants. The INTF has supported grants on every continent, and has now expanded its granting considerations to include nonviolence trainings inside the United States, while maintaining its deep and historical commitment to support trainings in other countries and continents.

INTF grants to organizations range in size but are not more than $5000 per grant.

• Diaspora coordinated action against authoritarian regime (Eritrea);
• Stigmatizing electoral violence and strategizing ways to prevent/interrupt it (Zambia in cooperation with Beautiful Trouble);
• Confronting the outrages of authoritarian government with creative nonviolence (Hungary);
• Supporting youth to assertively respond to organized violence during elections (Zimbabwe);
• Support for a program for regional human rights defenders, grassroots organizers, and pro-democracy activists who sought to increase their knowledge of strategic nonviolent struggle (SE Asia/ Laos);
• Support youth and women in a post war environment to use nonviolent constructive programs in social development and uproot years of violence (South Sudan);
•  For a collective effort to support a training for trainers to broadly support different movements (Belgium);
• Expansion of access to nonviolence trainers to creatively respond to youth drawn to violent past-times (Kenya);
• Support for a program to empower activists to expand civil society action space after a coup.(Turkey);
• Integrating nonviolence principles and programs for self-governance and human rights (Biafran community of Nigeria);
• Enabling movement building through civil disobedience training across sectors (Korea);
• Use of theatre to address and change youth gang violence in slums (Kenya)

Note that INTF previously gave grants only to groups outside the US, with the exception of Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. As the INTF moves forward, the US is now included.

Testimonials

“Turkey’s heterogeneous social structure requires that tensions among different ethnic, religious, and political groups be resolved through peaceful means. Nonviolence trainings help keep channels of dialogue open during times of heightened polarization. They also contribute to strengthening a culture of democratic participation, supporting the handling of social issues through civic means.

Through these trainings, activists gain strategic thinking skills. By learning nonviolent resistance tactics, they are able to create long-term and sustainable change. In particular, they acquire practical tools for organizing mass movements, developing media strategies, and engaging in dialogue with people holding opposing views.

Nonviolence trainings contribute to the spread of democratic culture worldwide. By adapting the experiences of successful figures such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King to today’s conditions, they offer the opportunity to run effective campaigns in the age of social media.”  –Tolga Kızılay, Siddetsizlik Merkezi / Turkish Centre for Nonviolence Training & Research

“Training, practice or exploration of anything in life helps make us better practitioners. Our society is steeped in a culture which celebrates and promotes violent activity and is set up to prioritize and trigger major violent reactions. In that light training is necessary if we want to use the discipline of  nonviolent action. Whether we engage with the idea of nonviolence from a moral or philosophical perspective, or from a strategic and tactical approach we do not wish to respond with violence or the threat of violence.  I use to be a trained firefighter, I have an emergency medical technicians license. This type of activity requires me to have good performance under duress and under stress, and requires and benefits from training. The training in nonviolent action I do also builds our community. It builds knowledge of each other, which reduces the likelihood people will respond ineffectively and increase repression from the other side. Nonviolence training helps us understand and build trust and security within our communities and networks and this critical community building is really important as we work on building a future based on more healthy relationships.”  –Nadine Bloch activist artist, strategic nonviolent organizer, and Training Director of Beautiful Trouble

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