New Worlds in Old Shells: a handbook for constructive programme

Have you ever felt like you’re not big enough, or powerful enough, to decide what happens to or your community? That your choices are limited and you don’t like any of the options?

Compiled War Resisters’ International, this book was written because we can make transformative choices about the way our lives are lived. New Worlds in Old Shells sets out to prompt, question, guide, challenge, nurture and provoke anyone who looks at the world and thinks “surely it doesn’t have to be like this?”

The eight chapters explore:

• the crucial role that values play in building a just and nonviolent society
• strategic planning and analysis, visions, goals, and developing a strategy
• interacting and relating with the dominant culture and society that we are trying to change
• different dimensions where our ideas come to life, like housing, food production, transportation, health, or the arts
• Training and education for social change
• A series of case studies, stories and experiences from around the world