Turning the Tide is a programme which trains people to use active nonviolence to confront situations of injustice effectively. Following the violence that marked the results of Kenya elections in 2007, Turning the Tide was invited by Kenyan Quakers to help teach nonviolent methods of working for change. With only two years until the next general election time is of the essence.
Demonstrations by students in Kenya generally become unruly and violent. Could training in nonviolence calm their ways? Quakers in Kenya turned to Britain Yearly Meeting for help. Quaker News (No 77) reported the tentative first steps. Nine months on, Bernard L.
