Jack DuVall - openDemocracy

Books and the future of understanding

Every print book is both a time machine and a device to listen to others. We need them more than ever.

By Jack DuVall

/ 20 Feb 2020

Ukraine: a nonviolent victory

Dramatic words or violent acts were not how the Ukrainian people ousted an authoritarian leader and his cronies. Civil resistance shredded the legitimacy of a repressive and corrupt government. The nonviolent movement dissolved the consent of the people and the loyalty of regime defenders on which

By Jack DuVall, Maciej Bartkowski and Peter Ackerman

/ 3 Mar 2014

Ukraine: a nonviolent victory

Dramatic words or violent acts were not how the Ukrainian people ousted an authoritarian leader and his cronies. Civil resistance shredded the legitimacy of a repressive and corrupt government. The nonviolent movement dissolved the consent of the people and the loyalty of regime defenders on which

By Jack DuVall, Maciej Bartkowski and Peter Ackerman

/ 3 Mar 2014

Ruthless regimes not impervious to civil resistance: A reply to Maged Mandour

There is little systematic evidence to suggest that “ruthlessness” is, in and of itself, a critical variable.

By Stephen Zunes and Jack DuVall

/ 1 Nov 2013

Ruthless regimes not impervious to civil resistance: A reply to Maged Mandour

There is little systematic evidence to suggest that “ruthlessness” is, in and of itself, a critical variable.

By Stephen Zunes and Jack DuVall

/ 1 Nov 2013

A new world of power: the source and scope of Civil Resistance

Find a person who believes that civil resistance is less legitimate than an edict or directive of the state, and you will probably have found someone who speaks for those who exercise power, not for those on whose consent the legitimacy of that power must rest. An introduction to a new partnership

By Jack DuVall

/ 22 Sep 2013

A new world of power: the source and scope of Civil Resistance

Find a person who believes that civil resistance is less legitimate than an edict or directive of the state, and you will probably have found someone who speaks for those who exercise power, not for those on whose consent the legitimacy of that power must rest. An introduction to a new partnership

By Jack DuVall

/ 22 Sep 2013

Civil resistance and the language of power

“If you want to build a ship, don’t gather your people and ask them to provide wood, prepare tools, assign tasks. Call them together and raise in their minds the longing for the endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

By Jack DuVall

/ 19 Nov 2010

Obama: the honourable candidate

A good friend of mine, who is a local personal acquaintance of Obama's in Chicago, mentioned to me an interesting trait of the Illlinois Senator: his personal thoughtfulness,

By Jack DuVall

/ 10 Jun 2008