Results for civil resistance
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Libya's Revolution: A Model for the Region?
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
Recent analyses of the Arab Spring have questioned the efficacy of nonviolent resistance compared to armed struggle in ousting authoritarian regimes. Recent analyses of the Arab ...
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Martin Luther King's Other Dream
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
The forthcoming dedication of the national memorial monument honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., affords an opening for considering the complexity and meaning of his leadership. ...
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Did the Libyan Uprising Have to be Violent?
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
Could nonviolent resistance have succeeded in Libya? Here are four points worth considering: Could nonviolent resistance have succeeded in Libya? Here are four points worth consid ...
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Who is Organizing the California Prison Hunger Strike?
Originally Posted: 09/24/2011 - 5:14pm | Type: Blog -
photo © 2009 Amanda Slater | more info (via: Wylio)On the first day of this month, inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison, joined by inmates in other prisons around the state, began a hunger strike ...
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People Power
Originally Posted: 07/27/2011 - 1:45pm | Type: Magazine Article -
Erica Chenoweth From Cairo, Egypt, to Madison, Wisconsin, civil society is fighting back through massive nonviolent resistance. But what m ...
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Where are the Women?
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog -
Well, the last time I checked, women were in the front lines of civil resistance struggles in <a href="http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/03/03/women-on-the-frontlines-in-bahrain/" target=" ...
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Peace Through (Nonviolent) Strength
Originally Posted: 09/01/2011 - 12:57pm | Type: Blog -
Erica Chenoweth directs Wesleyan University's program on terrorism and insurgency research, which she established in 2008. Erica Chenoweth directs Wesleyan University's ...
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Why Does a Yemeni Woman Have Pictures of Gandhi, King, and Mandela?
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog -
As I read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406586.html" target="_blank">Sudarsan Raghavan</a>'s <em>Washington Post ...
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Egypt's Moment
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog -
<em>"All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable." -- ...
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Understanding the Protests in Egypt
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog -
The massive <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/world/middleeast/26egypt.html?_r=2&hp" target="_blank">anti-government protests</a> that flared in Egypt yesterday ...
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Who Will Listen to the Voices of Veterans Calling for Peace?
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog -
I watched helplessly as the snow fell on stubborn veterans and police officers at the White House gates. I watched helplessly as the snow fell on stubborn veterans and police offi ...
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New Research on Why Nonviolence Works
Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog -
I was in a "webinar" (live online presentation thingy) recently with <a href="http://echenoweth.faculty.wesleyan.edu/" target="_blank">Erica Chenoweth</a> from Wesley ...
