Les Désobéissants — desobeir.net
Summary
The French-language civil-disobedience training hub desobeir.net and its associated practitioner manual — the operational FR reference for nonviolent action preparation.
Body
Les Désobéissants is the French activist collective behind the desobeir.net civil-disobedience training platform and the associated Désobéir field manual [source: desobeir-net-desobeissants]. The collective’s methodology is built around the practical preparation of NV actions — not the theory, but the operational artefacts: action grids, role sheets, scenario rehearsals, and post-action debrief structures [source: desobeir-net-desobeissants].
The site’s training materials cover: action prep (how to identify the target; how to choose the tactic; how to design the action’s public framing); roles (action lead, deputy, police liaison, media liaison, legal liaison, medic, safety officer, jail liaison); consensus in a small group under stress (the FR equivalent of the Seeds-for-Change consensus work); dealing with police (jurisdiction-tagged for French law; not legal advice); post-action (the immediate post-arrest handoff, the trial, the political effect) [source: desobeir-net-desobeissants].
The manual Désobéir itself is paid (treat as abstract-only for the manual; the website content is free but unlicenced). The website carries a small fee for some workshops and the manual is sold to fund the collective; the lists note the manual’s ISBN is unverified [source: desobeir-net-desobeissants].
Use it for
Designing a FR-language action prep; accessing the desobeir.net scenario library; sourcing FR equivalents of the WRI/WRI-DE/ICNC materials.
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 ISBN of the paid manual and current URL of the open materials.
- Verify whether any desobeir.net workshops are CC-licensed (some are explicitly CC-BY-NC).