![]() ![]() Part of the reason for this skepticism is that information about the power of nonviolent resistance-and up-to-date data demonstrating its power-is inaccessible to many people in the world. Yet many people remain skeptical about the power of nonviolent resistance to effect change. What remains to be seen is how effective they will be in challenging entrenched power in increasingly complex environments.Įxisting research shows that nonviolent resistance can be a highly effective pathway to defend democratic values and institutions, while also creating transformative change in many domains. Movements are fighting back against corruption, injustice, and violence in almost every country of the world. The rise of digital authoritarianism has created more opportunities for more sophisticated forms of repression, which has disrupted and undermined nonviolent movements that have relied on digital organizing and online activism to build their movements. Over the past decade, authoritarian backsliding has occurred in Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Brazil, India, the United States, and elsewhere. At the same time, the very institution of democracy is under threat. Movements worldwide are fighting global inaction on climate change, discrimination against refugee and immigrant communities fleeing war and hardship, and rising global inequality. The world is facing numerous crises that demand urgent and effective nonviolent action. ![]() The Nonviolent Action Lab produces and disseminates up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure. Producing and disseminating knowledge on nonviolent action ![]()
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