Disabled Liberation Aotearoa NZ DLANZ promotes that the use of non violence to achieve a means to an end is both unproductive and unethical.....came off DLANZ Feed about.. Erica Chenoweth, Ph.D. is an.. internationally recognized authority on political violence and its alternatives, Foreign Policy magazine ranked her among the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2013 for her efforts to promote the empirical study of civil resistance. Considering what is going on in Hong Kong and the fact that the Syrian Uprising were both peaceful...this is worth a watch......quoting intro...Between 1900-2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns. Erica will talk about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discuss the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st century. She will focus on the so-called 3.5% rule—the notion that no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5% of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. In addition to explaining why nonviolent resistance has been so effective, she will also share some lessons learned about why it sometimes fails.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 03:43:11 +0000
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