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Summary

Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ) Latin America’s fillable workbook for planning a nonviolent action — mapping objective, message, target, and nonviolent discipline guidelines.

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Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ, founded 1974 by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate) is the Latin American peace-and-justice service whose Planificación de la acción noviolenta is the regional practitioner’s workbook for nonviolent action preparation [source: serpaj-planificacion-noviolenta]. The workbook is meant to be filled in by an action team before any major action, and the fillable structure forces the team to think through the action in the SERPAJ framework: objective (what outcome the action seeks — concrete and verifiable); message (the one-sentence framing the public will remember); target (the actor whose behaviour must change); tactic (the method that fits the target, the constituency, and the message); nonviolent discipline (the rules the group will hold itself to during the action); evaluation (the criteria the group will use to judge success) [source: serpaj-planificacion-noviolenta].

The workbook’s distinctive contribution is the nonviolent discipline section — explicit rules the team commits to internally before the action, including what the group will not do (no destruction of property, no verbal escalation, no attacks on individual police), what the group will do (visible, public, accountable, using the language of human rights), and how the group will support a participant who is struggling during the action [source: serpaj-planificacion-noviolenta].

License: not explicit (the lists flag link-unverified); treat as link-only. The workbook is widely used in Latin American SERPAJ chapters and is one of the few Spanish-language action-planning artefacts that takes the philosophy of nonviolence seriously as a planning constraint rather than a slogan [source: serpaj-planificacion-noviolenta].

Use it for

Designing a Latin American NV-action; running a pre-action planning session; framing the action in the language of human rights and the SERPAJ tradition.

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 and edition; SERPAJ chapters operate semi-independently.
• Verify license on the actual document.