I can guarantee that the week this course is occurring, there will be protests and political instability in several countries around the world. Some will have been planned weeks in advance while others will pop up with almost no notice. Some will cause mass property damage and policy changes while others will occur peacefully and be done by the following day.

There are many services that can alert you and your company to when a protest is planned in a certain city or country. But simply knowing that 1,000 people will be on the streets Tuesday doesn't tell you how they will impact your personnel, facilities and investments the day of the protests much less the political situation the rest of the week.

This course will give you tools to analyze the events as they are happening and deliver better products to your readers and clients. We'll go through the causes of protests, how to predict protests, how to find and assess information, how to best write about protests, and how to determine the impact on your client, customer, or reader.

This is a "sprint course" with about five hours of material and exercises over five days. It can't cover everything. But it will give you new tools and frameworks to understand and write about protests. It will include exercises that incorporate current information.