2. POLITICAL VIOLENCE: OUR LANDSCAPE

What conditions enable repression and political violence to happen? And what does repression and political violence actually mean? How do we recognize where it comes from and when it happens in our communities? In Part 2 of this training, we’ll go deeper into the larger context of authoritarianism and how authoritarians leverage political violence and repression to build, consolidate, and maintain power.  We’ll also discuss the tactics that those who enable, incite, and enact political violence use to hide their actions and silence resistance. We’ll explore the five common strategies that perpetrators use to get away with repression and violence, and how these tactics rely on the pillars of support that uphold authoritarian systems. Through real-world examples and strategic insight, this session will equip you to better identify repression and political violence in all its forms and understand the systems that enable it—so we can disrupt and ultimately dismantle them together.