Activities for Principle#4

Level of complexity: Low / Medium

Estimated time: 1—2 hours

• Invite one or two guest speakers (e.g., climate refugees, displaced farmers, workers, activists from the Global South) to share their lived experiences.
• Encourage participants to listen actively and write down questions.
• Facilitate a moderated discussion, asking participants:
• What did you learn?
• What emotions did the story evoke?
• How are these injustices connected to our own lives?
• How can we use these experiences, and what can we do to challenge dominant narratives of progress or sustainability?

Apart from specific stories, you may organize special series and webinars that touch upon colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, and their connections to unequal exchange, and introduce alternatives and stories of hope, similarly to what the IDN’s Global South Circle has been doing: Beyond Degrowth - Collective Reflection (external link)

Level of complexity: Medium / High

Estimated time: 2—3 hours

• Assign roles to participants: e.g., Indigenous land defender, Global North policymaker, fossil fuel company representative, migrant worker, activist NGO, etc.
• Present a conflict scenario (e.g., a mining project).
• Allow preparation time in groups or individually based on roles and number of participants.
• Facilitate a simulated roundtable discussion or negotiation.
• After the role-play, hold a debrief session:
• How did each role feel?
• What power imbalances emerged?
• What would a globally just outcome look like?

• The role play could be turned into a Forum Theater inspired by the Theater of the Oppressed work of Augusto Boal. (Here is a useful resource to know more about how to organize and practice a Forum Theater (external link).)

Further Resource: Use the workshop guide (external link) designed by Bascule Coop to advance this role play activity.