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2014
Abstract Civil resistance is a form of contentious politics that eschews violent tactics and strategies in favor of nonviolent ones. Employing methods likes strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations, nonviolent activists have often defeated their adversaries, including highly repressive states.
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Abstract Civil resistance is a form of contentious politics that eschews violent tactics and strategies in favor of nonviolent ones. Employing methods likes strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations, nonviolent activists have often defeated their adversaries, including highly repressive states.
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Civil Resistance Against Jihadists: How?
2022Abstract This chapter focuses on the question of how civil resistance in jihadist proto-states manifests itself. The first part of the chapter explores this question on a sub-national level, presenting new and unique data on a total of 624 protest events against jihadist groups during the Syrian Civil War.
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Civil Resistance and Democratization
2020Abstract This chapter concludes the study of civil resistance transitions (CRTs), summarizing the evidence from the quantitative and qualitative studies. It speaks to the limitations of the study, including its inability to speak to the effects of failed civil resistance campaigns on democratization, dependence on specific ...
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2021
This chapter addresses the question of how people build social and political power from below, how civil resistance succeeds, and whether there are conditions under which civil resistance is impossible. It emphasizes the crucial point that civil resistance campaigns succeed when they
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This chapter addresses the question of how people build social and political power from below, how civil resistance succeeds, and whether there are conditions under which civil resistance is impossible. It emphasizes the crucial point that civil resistance campaigns succeed when they
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The Future of Civil Resistance
2021This chapter discusses the long-term effects of civil resistance on different societies, noting whether successful civil resistance campaigns tend to leave societies better or worse off. It explores how civil resistance campaigns have changed over the past decade, particularly with the
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Spontaneity and Civil Resistance
2020This chapter examines the contingent and endogenous causes that sparked the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Spurred by two contingent events generating pre-emptive and massive mobilization, the movement was a spontaneous transformation of the long-planned Occupy Central campaign.
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Journal of Resistance Studies
ISIS, which aims to create an independent Islamic state, or caliphate, will only be weakened through a multifaceted strategy combining diplomatic, economic, political, and other means. Organized civilian action that aims to disrupt and deny the group’s key sources of power could be a critical part of that strategy.
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ISIS, which aims to create an independent Islamic state, or caliphate, will only be weakened through a multifaceted strategy combining diplomatic, economic, political, and other means. Organized civilian action that aims to disrupt and deny the group’s key sources of power could be a critical part of that strategy.
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2019
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. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these ...
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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. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these ...
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Three Challenges to Civil Resistance
Peace Review, 2017Any civil resistance movement or a campaign within a movement will likely encounter repression. It will likely have to deal with violent flanks (either expressively, aspirational, or operational).
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