George Lakey
Summary
George Lakey is a long-time US nonviolent-action strategist and trainer whose stages of movement development handout is one of the three named stage-frameworks the People Power Manual’s Campaign Strategy Guide teaches in parallel — alongside Gandhi’s six stages and Martin Luther King Jr’s six stages [source: people-power-manual]. The manual’s working canon treats Lakey’s framework as one of three coordinated lenses campaigners can read a movement’s development through.
Key idea in this wiki
- The People Power Manual’s Campaign Strategy Guide publishes a dedicated handout — “George Lakey’s stages of movement development” — alongside Moyer’s MAP and Gandhi’s six stages, treating Lakey as one of the three stage-frameworks the wiki’s the-campaign-cycle echoes [source: people-power-manual].
- The handout list in the manual places Lakey between “Process Guide: From tactics to strategy” and the Mahatma Gandhi stage-model, so Lakey’s framework functions as the move from one-off tactics to longer-stage movement planning in the practitioner curriculum [source: people-power-manual].
- His strategic writing bridges direct-action theory and hands-on activist training — the same territory the wiki’s training and civil-resistance pages share.
- Adjacent thinker pages in the wiki treat Lakey as a sibling of bill-moyer (MAP) and thinkers/mahatma-gandhi in the three-handout canon the manual builds around.
Why campaigners read him
Campaigners read Lakey because the People Power Manual treats his stage-model as one of three coordinating frameworks that organisers should be able to read a movement through — alongside Gandhi and King [source: people-power-manual]. Where Moyer’s MAP is movement-development-focused and Gandhi/King emphasise the large-campaign arc, Lakey’s stages sit closer to the transition from one-off tactics to longer-term movement strategy in the manual’s pedagogical sequencing [source: people-power-manual]. The wiki uses Lakey’s framework in the-campaign-cycle and campaign-planning as the third pillar of its parallel-stage canon.
Related
- people-power-manual
- training-for-change
- the-campaign-cycle
- civil-resistance
- bill-moyer
- thinkers/mahatma-gandhi
Learn more
- On Wikipedia: George Lakey — CC BY-SA 4.0
Sources & verification
- sources/people-power-manual — grounding: secondary — RAW (7977 chars)