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Nonviolent Protest Strategies

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Nonviolence and Nonviolent Direct Action
A summary of the theory and practice of nonviolent direct action as it has been used in the past and how it is being used now in 2020.

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Harry Boyte and Marie-Louise Ström: Constructive Nonviolence
Constructive nonviolence can be a profound resource for addressing injustice, repairing torn relationships, and creating healthy civic life. And it is something we all can do, everyday.

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Does Nonviolence Work?
A comparison of the efficacy of violence versus nonviolence in bringing about wanted socio-economic change.

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Nonviolence

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Martin Luther King from a Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding Perspective
A look at the now hard to imagine challenges faced by the Civil Rights Movement, Dr. King, and the 1963 March on Washington; how they were able to overcome them; and what they can teach us today.

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Waging Nonviolence
An independent, non-profit media platform dedicated to providing original reporting and expert analysis of social movements around the world.

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George Lakey on Using Nonviolence to Prevent a Coup
Multiple articles about preventing President Trump from mounting an authoritarian take over of America democracy.

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Backfire Basics
A primer from the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict on how to create backlash against injustice, making it less likely to "get away with it."

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Toolkits And Workbooks -- Self-Organizing And Systems Change
A free package of toolkits and workbooks to assist your networks and collaborative projects in systems change and self-organizing.

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Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: An Action Guide
This guide shows how nonviolent action and peacebuilding can be used together to mobilize communities, address power imbalances and conflict drivers, and support inclusive, participatory peace processes.

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The King Center
The King Center, founded by Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King provides education and training, events and research on "Kingian nonviolence."

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The Science of Violent vs. Non-Violent Resistance
Addressing calls for violent resistance to Israel and Jews on his campus, Peter Coleman points to research by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth that show that nonviolence is about twice as likely to succeed as violence.

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Why protests work, even when not everybody likes them
From Waging Nonviolence, an article explaining that organizers must learn to embrace the polarizing nature of protest in order to use it effectively.

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Nonviolence in Action: Why Civil Resistance Works and the Role of Religion
Horizons Chief Organizer, Maria J. Stephan delivered this keynote address at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference on November 24, 2024.

News and Opinion
Remember Martin Luther King Jr.?
An argument that Kendi's antiracism won't work, but King's does. Is it time to revive the nonviolence movement.

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The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
An essay that starts with the assumption that "power is never given, it is always taken." It then goes on to observe that the historic success of nonviolent movements proves that they can be more powerful than the autocratic regimes they oppose.