civil resistance
People Power: The Strategic Dynamics of Civil Resistance (online course)
The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) will host our annual free, moderated online course, “People Power: The Strategic Dynamics of Civil Resistance. In this course, over 50 highly motivated and collaborative participants from around the world will...
Social defence [book – free download]
Social defence is nonviolent community resistance to aggression and repression, as an alternative to military forces. Given the enormous damage caused by military systems, social defence is an alternative worth investigating and pursuing. Since the 1980s, Jørgen...
How we win | Book
Today’s new direct action campaigns require a new, down-to-earth guide to effective campaigning. George Lakey’s How We Win is that timely guide. The Women’s March of January 21, 2017 was estimated at four million people — the largest assembly of activist protest in...
Five Acclaimed Civil Resistance Films Now Available in Full, for Free
The International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict have now posted five critically acclaimed documentary films on civil resistance on their website, in English as well as translated into over 20 languages. Originally available only on DVD or videocassette, and shown in...
Civil Society Confronts Authoritarianism [article]
Batuhan Aydagül writes: “My experience in Erdoğan’s Turkey has taught me that NGOs need to avoid polarizing politics, focus on core values, and find allies to survive and thrive in closing societies… By being pragmatic, we can preserve our civil-society...
Practitioners of civil resistance: Assess your cybersecurity through threat modeling
Most activists and other practitioners of civil resistance realize that governments can use various methods of digital surveillance to find and silence dissenters. The question of how to protect ourselves can seem overwhelming. Wherever you look there are different...
Minds of the Movement blog
Minds of the Movement bloggers are a diverse group representing more than a dozen countries to date. They write for those interested in the ideas and experiences of people on the front line of civil resistance, and those who seek to understand the art and science of...
Violence Will Only Hurt the Trump Resistance
Erica Chenowith writes: “black bloc tactics often hurt the causes that these activists claim to be fighting for. While violent flanks have sometimes produced short-term tactical advantages, they often come with painful long-term costs for movements seeking...
Grow your movement by working with complexity
As part of the new ChangeMakers podcast, Annie Kia shares insights on the Bentley blockade where community members challenged the proposed unconventional gasfield. Bentley was an amazing uprising of people power that effectively stopped the gas industry in northern...
Resistance guide: How to sustain the movement to win (Book)
Do you want to be part of a successful effort to defeat the Trump agenda? Do you want to understand how great social movements of the past can guide the current fight? Do you want to know how to sustain the movement even in times of burnout, disillusionment, or...
The Toppling of Slobodan Milosevic
Marty Branagan (2004) exploring the role of nonviolent political action in overthrowing the Serbian dictatorship.