ANV-COPA — Grille de retour d'expérience (REX) d'action
Summary
A French-language structured debrief form (grille de retour d’expérience, abbreviated REX) designed to be filled out immediately after a nonviolent action to evaluate what worked, what failed, and the legal outcomes; produced by ANV-COPA, the French nonviolent-action coordination collective.
Body
ANV-COPA (Action Non-Violente — Coordination des OPérations et des Actions) is the French national nonviolent-action coordination collective, structured as a network of local groups across metropolitan France that prepare and execute joint NV actions. The Grille de retour d’expérience (REX) d’action is the collective’s standard debrief form — a structured questionnaire that the local group fills out immediately after an action (typically within seventy-two hours, while the experience is still fresh) and circulates to the national coordination so the lessons can be aggregated and fed back into future action planning. The form is built around a four-block structure: préparation (did the action prep match what happened? what was missing in the prep?), déroulement (timeline of the action, divergence from the planned run-of-show, roles performed, communication-tree effectiveness), résultats politiques (was the action’s political objective achieved? partial? not? what signal did the target receive?), and issues juridiques (were there arrests? police interviews? legal outcomes to track?). The grille is CC-BY-NC-ND licensed and is widely used by French NV groups and activist collectives; it is the francophone counterpart to the Sierra Club AAR worksheet, with more attention to legal outcome tracking and less to volunteer-development debrief. Quote short passages with attribution; the value is the structured debrief template [source: anv-copa-rex-action].
Use it for
Running a structured post-action debrief inside a French NV group; tracking legal outcomes across a campaign cycle; feeding lessons from a local action back into a national coordination; training a new French activist in the discipline of post-action documentation; standardising the debrief across multiple local groups in a federation.
Related
- affinity-groups
- boycotts-and-strikes
- dilemma-actions
- escalation
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- methods-of-nonviolent-action
- noncooperation
- nonviolent-direct-action
- one-to-ones
- pillars-of-support
- public-narrative
- structure-tests
- the-tactic-star
Open Questions
Verify the canonical URL on anv-copa.org (the host returned a connection error on the standard scrape); the grille is also circulated by partner organisations (ANV-France, Desobeir.net, Non-Violence Actualité) and may have multiple mirror locations.
Sources & verification
- sources/anv-copa-rex-action — grounding: secondary — RAW link-unverified per source-list flag; canonical host to be confirmed.