Civil ResistanceErica Chenoweth
Civil Resistance
by Erica Chenoweth · first published 2019
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"Civil resistance is a form of collective action that seeks to affect political, social, or economic status quo without using violence or the threat of violence against people to do so. It is organized, public, and explicitly nonviolent in means and ends. This book will introduce you to some of the main takeaways from history about the ways that civil resistance campaigns have formed, strategized, organized, and mobilized. This chapter will introduce you to the impressive history of civil resistance over the millennia, but it will also grapple with some of the key controversies that persist re
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Untrue. Read (for example) Erica Chenoweth's detailed empirical work on civil resistance. Nonviolent resistance has a considerably higher real-world chance of success than armed uprising. It also has the huge advantage of leaving behind less collective trauma, giving post-revolutionary society…
on “In Venezuela, life has gone from bad to worse. And the world has quit noticing” ↗…differences by Jason Kaufman, two seemingly-the-same neighbouring countries that have had different development paths when it comes to culture and government. (I'm Canadian.) Speaking of government: Civil resistance: what everyone needs to know by Erica Chenoweth. Seems violence/force is generally a less effective way to affect change in society than non-violence. The week: a history of the unnatural rhythms that…
on “Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?” ↗The study's description says it makes a comparison against violent campaigns. Ostensibly, violent protesters also suffer from "just disappearing": > Between 1900-2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns. Erica Chenoweth, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced…
on “The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance” ↗…https://web.stanford.edu/group/peacejustice/Gelderloos-Failu... It seems he's arguing that a diversity of tactics is more effective than nonviolence alone. Chenoweth's methodology if I understand correctly was to divide a lot of civil resistance campaigns into violent and nonviolent, and compare the success of the two groupings. It's possible that they're both right, that a diversity of tactics wins, but is more likely to win when that diversity…
on “The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance” ↗> While Gandhi's philosophy sounds nice in theory, it may not always be the most practical in real-world scenarios. In her book Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know: * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44096650-civil-resistanc... * https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10056014-why-civil-resis... Erica Chenoweth has an appendix listing…
on “Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)” ↗