Nonviolent Global Liberation (NGL)
NGL is not a regular organisation. We are a virtual community. We don’t have an office, we don’t have staff, a board, bosses, or a physical base. No one gets paid. We work within the principles of willingness, capacity and distributed leadership.
30 of us who are doing the work are sustained through money gifted to us.
Nonviolence
Nonviolence is a way of being and living that orients, in thought, word, and deed, towards integrating love, truth, and courage in individual and collective action aimed at preserving what serves life and at challenging what doesn’t to transform itself so the human family can realign with life.
Even in extreme circumstances, responding nonviolently emerges from inner resolve, systemic and historical awareness, and a vision of a future Beloved Community within the family of life. In practice, such responses rest on the commitment to transmute reaction into the willingness to include all of life in our circle of care; to uncover and speak the fullness of what we witness; to take action based on our vision and values, ranging from dialogue to civil disobedience; and to face the consequences of our choices and engage with impacts on ourselves, others, and life as a whole. (From Core Nonviolence Commitments as written by Miki Kashtan)
Liberation
‘Undoing the effects and eliminating the causes of oppression’ Definition given by Erica Sherover-Marcuse in “A Liberation Theory: A Working Framework.”
Patriarchy
Excerpt from Miki’s Blog Post:
‘Patriarchy is a system that encompasses a worldview, arrangements about how we live as humans with each other on this planet, implicit blueprints for what kinds of institutions we would create, and guidelines for what to do with our young to prepare them for the system itself.
The underlying principle of patriarchy, as I understand it, is separation and control. The separation is from self, other, life, and nature. The fundamental structures we have created over these millennia are based on dominance and submission, and the worldview we have inherited justifies them as necessary to overcome both our basic nature and “Nature”, seen as separate from us. We pride self-control and frown on “emotionality”; we operate, organizationally, in command and control forms; we have been treating nature as a thing to exploit, use, subdue, and, most recently, convert to commodities for sale.’
Vision Mobilisation (VM)
Vision Mobilisation is a framework for systemic transformation applicable to all people:; individuals, groups, organisations, and communities whoever and wherever they are, and whatever they are doing.
Providers
Members who are well-versed with NGL Frameworks and are sharing it with groups and organisations outside NGL.
Patriarchal conditioning
Thiss definition comes from Adigo Atabo’s website. Patriarchal socialisation leads to internalisation of the scarcity, separation, and powerlessness that are the building blocks of patriarchy.
Leadership
As the willingness to take responsibility for and care for the whole in interdependent relationship with others, even when those others are not doing so themselves, and even when we know that our perspective is by necessity limited.
Global Majority
“The term ‘Global Majority’ includes those people who identify as Black, African, Asian, Brown, Arab and mixed heritage, are indigenous to the global south, and/or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’” – Rosemary M. Campbell-Stephens, Educational Leadership and the Global Majority: Decolonising Narratives. (Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2021), 7.