sociogram: an exercise in which participants arrange their bodies to show something about themselves or to stimulate a new awareness. For example, participants are asked to range themselves along a line that shows how long they've been active with a particular cause. See also "spectrum." Read more...
Making Nonviolent Struggle More Powerful: Framing Strategies
We live in a breakthrough period for "nonviolent struggle," when pro-democracy movements are using it to overthrow dictators and human rights advocates are using it to save lives during civil unrest. My question is: how can this social technology be made even more powerful for achieving justice, democracy and peace?
I argue that it's time to view nonviolent action not just as an overall concept but to break it into three different applications, and I'll argue further that these applications are different from each other in important ways. By "nonviolent struggle" I mean an approach to waging conflict in which the protagonist uses methods of protest, intervention and/or noncooperation without the use or threat of injurious force. It's often called "people power." Researchers are struggling to keep up with the increased use of people power around the world, the better to understand it.
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When state-sponsored violence meets nonviolent people power, which one wins? As George Lakey shows in this passionate and well researched piece, it's nonviolence that tends to win hands down. Originally written as a rebuttal to the Ward Churchill screed "Pacifism as Pathology," this booklet is filled with recent real-world examples of nonviolent victories.
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