This report highlights key strategic functions and outcomes of education and training in nonviolent civil resistance movements around the world. Funded by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), it draws on findings from research,trainer and participant interviews, and the author's experience with nonviolent civil movements.

Describes the role played by people's movements and nongovernmental organizations, including educational programs, in empowering citizens and combating injustice in the Philippines. The authors argue that this type of education can play an important role in challenging the materialist vision of progress and awakening people to deeper values.…

Summarizes a number of related studies of the social aspects of modernization in the Philippines. From these studies we have selected four important social processes which influence the course of change, and we have attempted to interpret these processes with reference to social-psychological laboratory studies. (Author/JM)