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Classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention

Does the wanton violence at Lakhimpur Kheri make nonviolence look fragile and insignificant? Or does it instead expose the futility of violence? These questions need to be processed before we can re-examine that old and persistent doubt — namely that nonviolent protest can only work against somewhat responsive rulers, not against those who appear indifferent.

Research shows why right-wing actors trying to reap the tactical benefits of nonviolent action often fail to meet its standards.

As relations between major geopolitical players steadily deteriorate the Balkans are acquiring increasing importance for NATO powers for exactly the same reasons that they were essential to Nazi Germany in the early forties As elections approach,...

The Sunrise group organises protests meant to ignite moral conflict between climate action heroes and fossil fuel villains, and move public opinion.

The Taliban emerged initially from the residential schools opened in Pakistan mainly for refugees from Afghanistan where highly restrictive fanatic th

Análisis Cuba, plaza estratégica en América latina, otra vez bajo la mira y la acción del Comando Sur Los disturbios en ciudades cubanas son parte de una estrategia violenta de contrainsurgencia preventiva que Estados Unidos aplica también en Venezuela, Nicaragua y Haití. A ello se suma la dimensión geoestratégica. Los graves problemas de escasez en Cuba no se solucionarán con las leyes del mercado 25 de julio de 2021 - 18:26 Juan Chaneton (*)   Ha sido sorpresivo el...

5. Fractura institucional. En el caso de Nicaragua y los ataques sostenidos contra su Gobierno, las matrices descritas son el ejemplo elocuente del trabajo desestabilizador ejercido por Estados Unidos y sus socios regionales, tanto de gobiernos como de instituciones, medios de información y el apoyo en esta estrategia golpista de gobiernos europeos. Todos ellos, sordos, ciegos y mudos frente a gobiernos claramente sindicados como narcoestados, como es el caso de Colombia, por ejemplo: Un país...

50 years ago, the Pentagon Papers’ success hinged on a personal conversion to nonviolence 16.06.2021 - US, United States - Waging Nonviolence (Image by Democracy Now) Daniel Ellsberg’s release of the Pentagon Papers 50 years ago this week represents one of the most dramatic — if not the most dramatic — nonviolent actions of the movement that h...

How the British Invented Color Revolutions So said former Trump aide Darren Beattie, speaking on the Tucker Carlson show, September 15, 2020. Most people felt something was fishy about the upcoming election. But it was hard to say what. Beattie gave a name to the problem.  He called it “color revolution.” He defined color revolution as “a regime change model favored by many in our national security apparatus.” It uses “an engineered, contested-elections scenario” to disrupt and ove...