By Jan Willis — 2019
To change the world, says Jan Willis, we need hope. And hope grows from nonviolent actions, no matter how small.
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Violent responses to social justice protests require protesters to be even more focused on peaceful tactics.
As democracy hangs in the balance, activists are drawing lessons from the study of civil resistance.
Clearly, there is much more to learn about nonviolent resistance: It is an emerging phenomenon, and research on the topic is likewise emerging within the social sciences.
Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns
It sounds simple, yet it’s more than a technique for resolving conflict. It’s a different way of understanding human motivation and behavior.
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Whether he’s working in a war-torn area or an inner-city slum, Rosenberg’s goal is the same: to teach and encourage compassionate communication.
People can change how they think and communicate. They can treat themselves with much more respect, and they can learn from their limitations without hating themselves.
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Research finds that nonviolent action and peacebuilding tactics can achieve a more just and sustainable peace when they are combined strategically.
We’ve identified nearly 100 distinct methods of non-violent action that include physical, virtual and hybrid actions.
In order to evaluate what Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance of nonviolence has contributed to our current view of protest, it bears noting that the concept of his nonviolence has been flattened.