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Leading Palestinian activist to receive award for nonviolent achievement
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA STORY & LIVESTREAMED EVENT NOTICE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2015 Leading Palestinian Activist to Receive Award for Leadership in Nonviolent Action Boston/Medford,...
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Introducing Civil Resistance: Understanding the Basics
Hardy Merriman, President of ICNC, opens the week of lectures and discussions with an introduction on civil resistance. Nonviolent civil resistance movements around the world are a growing force in...
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FSI premiere of Documentary Film ‘Egypt: Revolution Interrupted?’
Film maker Steve York addresses questions and comments during the first public viewing of Egypt: Revolution Interrupted? The first evening of FSI was marked by the premier of Egypt: Revolution...
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“Confusion Among Activists is Authoritarians’ Greatest Ally”
“Confusion among activists is authoritarians’ greatest ally. A checklist can bring clarity for activists’ decision-making.” ICNC Founding Chair Peter Ackerman is working on a practical resource for...
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About Repression and Backfire
Erica Chenoweth, a researcher and renowned specialist on nonviolent conflict and civil resistance and co-author with Maria Stephan on Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent...
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How Movements Can Use Loyalty Shifts and Defections
A key variable determining the likelihood of success by nonviolent movements, particularly in authoritarian situations, is defections by government supporters. The enforcement power of the state...
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2015 James Lawson Award Winner: Iyad Burnat
Iyad Burnat has led nonviolent resistance in the village of Bil’in for over a decade. Upon receiving the 2015 James Lawson Award for Achievement in the Practice of Nonviolent Conflict, Iyad stated:...
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Austin Thompson on Nonviolent Action against Systemic Racism
“We should think about the struggle of American Americans in this country as the canaries in a coalmine. Which is to say, when miners enter a coal mine, they first send in a small bird called a canary...
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Video: How movements can forge more effective relationships with the media
Why has the media done such a poor job of reporting on civil resistance movements? The first reason is the fact that the media equates power with a capacity for violence and thus reports accordingly,...
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Nonviolent Strategies to Protect Civilians during War
International media often overlook nonviolent strategies to protect civilians during war, argues Oliver Kaplan during his presentation on Civilian Agency in Disrupted Societies. Why? Probably because...
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