This consultation offers techniques to address protests and other conflicts related to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. TNG experts can provide training to a variety of campus and school staff members and administrators, including a menu of ideas for policy and procedure updates, conflict management, de-escalation, and defusing techniques. Various formats are offered for this consultation, including workshops, policy work, and training. If conflict has come to your school or college, this workshop on response will help guide institutional strategy and decision-making for public statements, intervention, and conflict management. Should the police be called? When? Should permits be enforced? How? Should policies be enforced? When, how, and on whom, by whom? Is intervention safe? Are protestors unsafe? Is the protest impeding access? Is the protest creating a hostile environment? This consultation can take place in half-day, single day, or multi-day formats for a variety of offices/audiences, many of whom share response duties, and many of whom have differing response obligations. Focus can be on de-escalation techniques and strategies, intervention options, postvention needs, addressing the various protestor involvement by students, faculty, staff/administrators, and external third-parties.
Attendees will be able to:
- Brainstorm various ways that the campus may be impacted by conflict, including protests, building occupation, vandalism, physical altercations, and riots.
- Devise or revise a protocol for response, including clarity of incident command, public messaging, internal messaging, escalation thresholds, de-escalation techniques, police involvement, other means of defusing conflict and protests safely, equitably, and effectively.
- Elaborate a three-part plan for prevention – intervention – and postvention
- Examine the implications of intervening or shutting down a protest, and what the threshold should be for considering doing so and then doing so.
- Apply learning outcomes through a table-top exercise (if desired)