A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they
are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail. Civil resistance is a …

Environmental and land defenders play a crucial role in attempts to slow down
environmental change and address power inequalities in land-use and resource …

What qualities make a leader succeed in business or politics? In an era when the
information revolution has dramatically changed the playing field, when old organizational …

The historical record indicates that nonviolent campaigns have been more successful than
armed campaigns in achieving ultimate goals in political struggles, even when used against …

How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like
factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport …

In the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they
occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed …

In this article, we review decades of research on state repression and nonviolent resistance.
We argue that these two research programs have converged around six consensus findings …

From Gandhi's movement to win Indian independence to the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011,
an expanding number of citizens have used nonviolent action to win political goals. While …

There is a significant amount of research that analyzes the consequences of repression on
social movement mobilization. Yet most studies do not examine the strategic agency of …

Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri
Lankan Tamils in Canada. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic …