Shanti Sena
— the peace keepers
We call our security system Shanti Sena. This means “peace army” in Sanskrit.
If problems erupt, calling “Shanti Sena!” loudly will bring assistance.
We repond with non-violent methods only to conflict.
Talking is tried before physical restraint. This talking is with compassion and respect.
If physical intervention can’t be avoided, it is done gently without inflicting injury.
There is a crew of people experienced in non-violent, peaceful intervention who devote most of their time to Shanti Sena,
but everybody is a peacekeeper at a Gathering. We are secure because we all watch out for each other.
If we don’t stay aware of what is going on with people around us, and don’t offer aid, trouble can erupt into violence and injury.
Often a group can prevail where a single person can’t. Offer your help in easing conflict.
We lighten the burden on Shanti Sena by: watching out for our own valuables, camping in groups with others,
and watching the camps of our neighbors when they are away.
We are all Shanti Sena
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The Introduction above… from the Rainbow ‘Mini-Manual’ online.
The Notes & Literature below… a Peacemaker library, supporting the new “SkillShare” discourses in Spring 2020:
[[]] CONFERENCE CALL NOTES —
~ Discussion Outline, 29ap20 & Beyond
~ Discussion CallNotes, 13my20
[[]] Saul-Tea’s new Shantisena blog page: https://shantisenaskillshare.blogspot.com/
[[]] SHANTISENA LIT & LINKS —
~ Shanti Sena – Peace Scenes:
https://www.welcomehome.org/tech/shantisena/
Rob’s superb summary, a solid resource for many years; covers Councils, Lost Children, Mob Scenes, Wingnuts, Evictions, Using the Police, Restraining People, Medical Evacuations, Drug Related Problems… and he shares “Shanti Sena Tales” from old reliable sources:
Plunker’s Hipstory, 2 things called “What is Shanti Sena?, Carla’s Story, VT’91 Story, Key West Murderer.
~ Shanti Sena Mini-Manual
http://www.bliss-fire.com/ShantiSenaManual.htm
~ from The Mini-Manual – compiled by Butterfly Bill:
https://www.welcomehome.org/info/mini-manual.html#peace
~ Soldiers of Peace – Mark Shepard
http://www.markshep.com/peace/GT_Sena.html
A look at the origins of Shanti Sena, India’s “Peace Army,” and how it fought riots with nonviolence.
~ Shanti Sena: Open Circle or Inner Circle – All Ways Free, 1993
https://www.free-assembly.org/resource/shantisena/ss-circles_awf93/
An anonymous essay on elders, wizards, and the real work that gets done.
~ Security Procedures – by Amazing Dave (c. 1998?)
https://www.free-assembly.org/resource/shantisena/security-procedures/
~ Trip Crisis First Response and Intervention
Linchpin’s latest, on other people’s bummers & harm reduction.
…(in the pipeline: more topical sources & new info links on investigating and legal observing — heads up soon!)