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Horizons Project

  • About
    • Mission, Vision & Values
    • Our Approach
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  • Our Work
    • Bringing Together Movement Actors
    • Catalyzing Change through Learning
    • Leveraging Research for Collective Action
  • Initiatives
    • Big Tent Democracy Organizing
    • Block, Bridge, Build
    • Making Political Violence and Repression Backfire
    • Nonviolent Action 
    • Pillar Shifts
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Bringing Together Movement Actors

Around the world, the most successful pro-democracy movements have been those that bring together diverse constituencies across deep social and political divides to work toward the shared aim of combatting autocracy and advancing democracy.

These movements build the trust and collaboration needed to support large-scale noncooperation and nonviolent collective action, while creating the conditions for future reconciliation and graceful accountability.

The Horizons Project brings together U.S. pro-democracy movement actors—faith leaders, business owners, veterans and military families, artists and cultural workers, members of professional associations, labor unions, lawyers, democracy organizers, and others.

We foster the connective tissue needed for a resilient, inclusive, and effective pro-democracy movement by creating spaces for dialogue, learning and skill building, strategy, collective action, and societal repair.

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Nonviolent Action 

Nonviolent action is one of the most powerful tools we have to defeat authoritarianism and injustice, defend our rights and freedoms, and bring about social change.
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Big Tent Democracy Organizing

Horizons creates the connective tissue that enables diverse actors and organizations from every sector of society to come together to push back against authoritarianism.
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Pillar Shifts

All political systems, including authoritarian regimes, rely on the allegiance of key organizations and institutions, or ‘pillars of support’ to remain in power, until those pillars shift.
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Related Resources

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Facilitating a Big Tent: Critical Connections for Pro-Democracy Organizing

Big Tents and Collective Action Can Defeat Authoritarianism

Lessons on Broad Based Organizing from the Utah Compromise: A BOLD Case Study

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