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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]
A nonviolent revolution is a revolution conducted primarily by unarmed civilians using tactics of civil resistance, including various forms of nonviolent protest, to bring about the departure of governments seen as entrenched and authoritarian without the use or threat of violence. [1]
In August 2012 this book won the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, given annually by the American Political Science Association for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs published in the US during the previous calendar year. Chenoweth, Erica. 2021. Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press.
The NYPD will reform how it polices protests in New York City — including by stopping kettling and other use of force tactics — in a landmark settlement filed in Manhattan Tuesday resolving ...
Political protest and cultural revolution: Nonviolent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s. Univ of California Press, 1991. Graeber, David. Direct action: An ethnography. AK press, 2009. Kauffman, Leslie Anne. Direct action: Protest and the reinvention of American radicalism. Verso Books, 2017. ISBN 978-1-78478-409-6
New York City’s police department has agreed to adopt new policies intended to safeguard the rights of protesters as part of a legal settlement stemming from its response to the Black Lives ...
Leaderless resistance can encompass anything from non-violent protest and civil disobedience to vandalism, terrorism, and other violent activity. Leaderless cells lack vertical command links and so operate without hierarchical command, [1] but they have a common goal that links them to the social movement from which their ideology was learned. [2]
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