Unerasable: A Free Resource for Communities Under Pressure
Updated October 2026: nationocide.com is now Unerasable, and the five pillars are now the five pressures.
Naming a pattern is not the same as helping people hold against it.
Earlier this year I spent three weeks sharing a framework on this blog: five ways communities come under pressure, drawn from more than a decade of Peace Through Prosperity fieldwork. Then I launched nationocide.com to put that framework to work.
It has a new name now. Unerasable.
Same address, for now. Same framework. Same refusal to charge for any of it. What has changed is where the work points. The first version was built around naming the harm. This one points at what communities can build before the harm arrives.
The word nationocide hasn’t gone anywhere. It has moved into the book, where it can be argued properly.
Why change the name?
Because a framework only helps if people can pick it up.
A word built on genocide is the right word for the worst cases. It is the wrong front door for a residents’ association worried about a regeneration scheme, or a parent watching their children stop speaking the language their grandparents speak.
Most communities never face the worst case. Every community faces some pressure. The site has to start where they are.
It isn’t a softer message. It’s a wider door.
The name changed because my thinking did: the scope widened, and so did the people it needs to reach.
What are the five pressures?
The framework hasn’t changed. The names have, so that anyone can use them without a glossary. If you read the earlier posts in this series, here is how the old names map to the new ones.
| Earlier name | Now called | The strength that answers it |
|---|---|---|
| Demographic displacement | Pushed out: people are moved, priced out or prevented from staying | Roots: ties to place, ownership, tenure |
| Cultural erasure | Written out: language, history and culture are dropped, renamed or banned | Heritage: passing on language, memory and practice |
| Economic strangulation | Squeezed out: livelihoods, businesses and land are taken or starved | Livelihood: income and assets the community controls |
| Psychological warfare | Worn down: stigma, surveillance and fear wear people down | Voice: telling your own story, in your own media |
| Leadership decapitation | Silenced: leaders are removed, co-opted or made unsafe | Backbone: leadership spread across many people |
The third column is the real change. Every pressure now has an answering strength -- something a community can build before the pressure peaks.
Most communities never face all five pressures. Every community can build all five strengths.
What will you find on Unerasable?
Two checks. Real stories. A toolkit. And the book behind them. All free, none behind an email address.
The resilience check is the place to start. A few minutes reflecting on your community’s strengths and the pressures it faces, with no evidence or sign-up needed.
The pressure check asks five questions, one for each pressure. You can add a news link or a document to any answer. The site then looks for sources that support it and sources that challenge it, so you see both before you act.
The stories are about real communities, from Wales and Harlem to Dharavi and Sudan. Each one sets out what happened, what held, and what didn’t, and every fact carries its source. None of them is ranked against another, because suffering isn’t a league table.
The toolkit holds practical tools, from community asset mapping to oral history projects, each with the steps it takes and the risks it carries. If you don’t know where to start, the starter kits group the tools by situation.
And the book, Unerasable, is where the full argument lives, including the case for the word nationocide.
What about safety?
Some of the people using this site live under surveillance. So the design starts from what we don’t collect.
The checks don’t ask for your name or your email. The site keeps as little as it can, and the privacy page sets out exactly what is stored, who processes it, and how long it is kept.
It’s English only for now. Urdu is next.
What’s the principle?
Recognition before instruction.
That was the principle when this started, and it still holds. A community that can name what is happening to it can respond together. A community that experiences each pressure as separate bad luck responds alone, one problem at a time.
What has changed is what comes after recognition. Not just naming. Building. Roots, heritage, livelihood, voice and backbone, each one a little stronger than it was last year.
Recognition is the start. Building is the work.
Where next?
If something in your community has started to feel less like coincidence and more like a pattern, start with the resilience check at Unerasable. It takes a few minutes and asks for nothing in return.
And I’d genuinely like to know: which of the five strengths is your community strongest in, and which would you most like to grow? Drop it in the comments, or grab 15 minutes on my calendar and we’ll compare notes over a virtual chai.
This post is part of the Unerasable series. Previous: What 15 Years of Fieldwork Taught Us About Community Resilience. Start of the series: The Coincidence Problem.