Mao, Gandhi, and the Choice Between Violent and Nonviolent Action
Guest Post by Ches Thurber Last week, Cullen Hendrix wrote a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on this blog…
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Free to Choose? Violent vs. Nonviolent Resistance and the Limits of Choice
By Cullen Hendrix for Denver Dialogues I spent a good thirty minutes the other day lurking on a…
The Global Spread of Demands for Self-Rule
Guest post by Katherine Sawyer and Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham. Although the European Union and United Nations were once…
When Engaged Scholarship Means Resistance
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues. Engaged scholarship takes on a new and urgent meaning when engagement means…
To Dissent or Not to Dissent? Principles of Ethical Resistance for US Federal Servants
Guest post by Maciej Bartkowski. “I thought I was the president, but when it comes to these bureaucrats,…
How Can We Know When Popular Movements Are Winning? Look to These Four Trends
By Erica Chenoweth for Denver Dialogues. In the past week, an awful lot of people have asked me…
Why Do Peaceful Protests “Turn Violent”?
By Jonathan Pinckney for Denver Dialogues. It’s a common story, seen in democracies and non-democracies, in every region of…
How Nonviolent Resistance Works: Factors for Successful Peacebuilding in Samaniego, Colombia
Guest post by Cécile Mouly, María Belén Garrido, and Annette Idler. Colombia is getting closer to ending the…
I Am Muslim
By Barbara F. Walter One of the disheartening after-effects of the Paris attacks has been how quick many…