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List of active separatist movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations. List of political parties campaigning for self-government. List of active rebel groups. List of inactive rebel groups. List of rebel groups that control territory. List of anarchist communities. List of anarchist organizations. Stateless society.
political party (regionalist): Asturian Renewal Union. political party (separatist): Andecha Astur. Autonomist movements. Cartagena. Proposed: extended autonomy for Cartagena within Region of Murcia. Political party: Movimiento Ciudadano de Cartagena. León. People: Leonese. Proposed autonomous area: Leonese region.
The term "wars of national liberation" is most commonly used for those fought during the decolonization movement. Since these were primarily in the third world, against Western powers and their economic influence, and a major aspect of the Cold War, the phrase has often been applied selectively to criticize the foreign power involved. [2]
Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [ 1 ]
The Baltic Way (Lithuanian: Baltijos kelias; Latvian: Baltijas ceļš; Estonian: Balti kett) or Baltic Chain (also "Chain of Freedom" [ 1 ]) was a peaceful political demonstration that occurred on 23 August 1989. Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 690 kilometres (430 mi) across the three Baltic ...
Self-determination[1] refers to a people 's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government with full suffrage. [2][3] Self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of the Charter ...
Scramble for Africa Africa in the years 1880 and 1913, just before the First World War. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
The decolonization of the Americas occurred over several centuries as most of the countries in the Americas gained their independence from European rule. The American Revolution was the first in the Americas, and the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was a victory against a great power, aided by France and Spain, Britain's enemies.