Dr. Kurt Schock
Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Affairs
Rutgers University

Over the course of the twentieth century nonviolent resistance developed into a powerful and widespread strategy for promoting political change. Yet our understanding of its dynamics is underdeveloped. One crucial yet under-studied aspect is the impact of simultaneous violent campaigns on the outcomes of campaigns of nonviolent resistance. That is, does a violent movement operating at the same time and in the same country as a nonviolent one increase or decrease the likelihood of success of the nonviolent resistance movement? We analyze this phenomenon in a cross-national quantitative study using the Nonviolent and Violent Conflict Outcomes (NAVCO) data set, which includes aggregate data on 323 primarily violent and nonviolent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006.

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