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Published in: HomeThe courage of Cheran: organizing against violence
Mistrust in government systems of rule has led the town of Cherán in Mexico to create its own institutions. The...
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Published in: HomeEgypt: how to negotiate the transition. Lessons from Poland and China
A comparison of the Polish Round Table and the Tiananmen Tragedy show that non-violent resistance movements need to...
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Published in: HomeCivil 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....
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Published in: HomeThe trifecta of civil resistance: unity, planning, discipline
Three attributes can make the difference between success and failure for nonviolent movements around the world:...
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Published in: HomeResisting corruption: recent progress in Indonesia and Kenya
People power may be well-suited to a systemic approach to curbing corruption. Political will can be thwarted,...
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Published in: HomeAuthentic journalism: weapon of the people
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big...
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Published in: HomeRed lenses on a rainbow of revolutions
Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian...
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Published in: HomeThe struggle after people power wins
With peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election....
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Published in: HomeRepression’s paradox in China
From the authoritarian’s perspective, internal dissidents are easy to deal with – put them in jail, have them...
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Published in: HomeThe Anishinabe and an unsung nonviolent victory in late twentieth-century Wisconsin
In the wake of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, many Native Americans adopted...
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Published in: HomeUpsurge in repression challenges nonviolent resistance in Western Sahara
Sahrawis have engaged in protests, strikes, cultural celebrations, and other forms of civil resistance focused on...
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Published in: HomePeople power and the new global ferment
People power does not lend itself to the geo-strategic interests of empires or warlords, since it is based on...
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