Maciej Bartkowski is an adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches strategic nonviolent resistance. He is editor of Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles and the author of White Paper on Nonviolent Defense to Counter Russian Hybrid Warfare. Dr. Bartkowski can be followed on Twitter @macbartkow and on maciejbartkowski.com.
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Published in: HomeNonviolent strategies to defeat totalitarians such as ISISMilitary might has little success against violent terror organizations. If nonviolent strategies seem impractical, it is an even greater naiveté to think armed solutions can be the answer.
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Published in: civilResistanceCountering hybrid war: civil resistance as a national defence strategyThe western response to Russian hybrid war in Crimea and eastern Ukraine has been predicated on a show of military force. Nonviolent civilian defence promises us another path.
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Published in: civilResistanceRussians resisting war and repressionThere are segments of the Russian population that, even in a politically inclement environment, bravely voice their open opposition to Russia’s military involvement in Ukraine.
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Published in: civilResistanceIn commemoration of Howard Clark’s work with the ICNCMaciej Bartkowski, senior director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, remembers Howard Clark as an effective collaborator and a scholar-practitioner with a distinct and nuanced approach to the field of nonviolent conflict.
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Published in: civilResistanceThe Ukrainian soccer ultras: allies of the resistance“Three years ago diverse groups of Ukrainian ultras did not have good relations, to put it mildly. Now we have reached a nationwide truce. This was the first time in the Ukrainian fan movement. In many other countries, this has never happened!"
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From China to Poland, lessons from June 4, 1989What can we learn from comparing the 1989 revolutions in Poland and in China?