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MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.
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.
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.
Violent responses to social justice protests require protesters to be even more focused on peaceful tactics.
Erica Chenoweth discovers it is more successful in effecting change than violent campaigns
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals.
The wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian’s nine decades is generously shared in It’s in the Action, the civil rights legend’s memoir of his life and times in the movement.
A lifetime of activist experience from a civil rights legend informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns In an era of massive worldwide protests for racial and economic justice, it is important to remember that marching is only one way to take to the...