Presenter: Jack DuVall/ President, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

Date: Monday, June 25th, 2012
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

Description: The modern practice of civil resistance sprang from new ideas about the underlying nature of political power that began to be framed about 170 years ago. As later developed by Gandhi and adopted by scores of movements and campaigns for rights and justice in recent decades, strategies of civil resistance have exhibited a common dynamic, propelled historic changes, and imparted certain political and social properties to their societies. The record of these strategies in liberating oppressed people, when compared to that of violent insurgency or revolt, has been remarkable – and suggests why political violence may substantially be reduced in the future.

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• Ackerman, Peter & DuVall, Jack. The Right to Rise Up: People Power and the Virtues of Civil Disruption. Fletcher Forum, 2006.
• DuVall, Jack. Civil Resistance and the Language of Power. OpenDemocracy.net. November 19, 2010
• DuVall, Jack. Why Learn about Civil Resistance? (interview). June, 2009.
• Merriman, Hardy.  Why Learn about Civil Resistance? (interview). June, 2009.
• Zunes, Stephen - Why Learn About Civil Resistance? (interview). June, 2009.