To help limit violence and intimidation the Commons offers the following:
- The Chronicle -- a frequently-changing "news and feature" page focused on goverance issues, analyses, and creative responses,
- Education Portal -- providing access to core knowledge needed to understand the challenges and potential solutions,
- Practitioner Portal -- with "actionable," practical advice for those dealing with particular governance problems,
- Research and Development Portal -- with information about efforts to advance the frontier of the field,
- Browse Page -- with browsable links to more in-depth information on dozens of violence-related topics,
- Search Page -- with simple and advanced searching of the many thousands of resources in the Commons knowledge base,
- Particpation Portal -- with information about how to use the Commons to advance your own goals (see more below).
The Commons provides a broad range of tools which allow people from all backgrounds to join the Commons community. Commons members are invited to help make the Commons a better resource and, more importantly, to join the team of people actively working together to meet the challenge of Limiting Violence and Intimidation. Participation tools include opportunities to:
- Provide comments and feedback on existing resources (follow the comment links at the bottoms of every Commons page),
- Suggest additional challenges (and sub-challenges) to cover using the comment page,
- Post announcements of governance-related activities and publications,
- Post challenges to the Commons community and suggest responses to challenges posed by others,
- Participate in (or convene and facilitate) working groups on specific governance related topics,
- Help edit Commons pages on particular topics (submit a comment form describing your areas of interest and we will send you details),
- Suggest others who should be invited to participate in the Commons initiative using the comment form,
- Publish materials on Commons-related topics through the Commons (use the comment form to explaining your areas of interest and request more information )
