Büro für gewaltfreie Aktion — Aktion planen (Arbeitsblatt)
Summary
The German-language Büro für gewaltfreie Aktion printable worksheet for planning a nonviolent action — a single-page grid covering goals, target, tactic, risk assessment, and de-escalation protocols.
Body
The BFGA (Büro für gewaltfreie Aktion, the German Office for Nonviolent Action) is the historical service office of the German gewaltfreie-Aktion tradition — successor to the Martin-Niemöller-Haus and the German peace-movement infrastructure of the 1980s [source: bfga-aktionsplanung]. Its Aktion planen worksheet is a printable single-pager designed for use by an affinity group or local campaign planning team; the format is a fillable grid that walks the group through the canonical NV-action plan [source: bfga-aktionsplanung].
The grid has five blocks: (1) goal and target (what outcome the action seeks; what change in behaviour or policy would count as success; who is the named target); (2) tactic choice (what action method fits the target and the constituency — sit-blockade, occupation, public demonstration, symbolic action); (3) risk assessment (what can go wrong — police response, media reaction, internal disagreement, weather); (4) de-escalation protocol (what the group will do if the situation escalates; how a participant can withdraw consent without losing face; how the group will support a participant who is struggling); (5) post-action review (what gets debriefed; who is responsible for what) [source: bfga-aktionsplanung].
The worksheet is explicitly intended to be paired with the BFGA’s longer planning literature and with the Skills-for-Action handbook — the worksheet is the operational artifact, the handbook is the training context. License is not explicit (treat as link-only); the BFGA materials are widely circulated in the German tradition [source: bfga-aktionsplanung].
Use it for
Designing a single-page action plan for a DE-language campaign; running an action-planning workshop; coordinating risk-assessment and de-escalation thinking before the action.
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
- Confirm current URL — the BFGA reorganised its site in 2023.
- Note: this is a fillable worksheet; the value is in the format, not in the underlying theory. Cross-link back to action-planning concept for the longer narrative.