Civil Resistance and Democratic Transitions

Dr. Victoria Tin-Bor Hui
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Notre Dame University

June 22, 2010

Does the use of civil resistance create long-lasting effects on civil society and political life? Does participation in broad-based nonviolent movements instill democratic values, which make democracy more sustainable after a transition? These and other questions help explore what kind of social capital may be created by nonviolent movements, using the case of the Polish Solidarity movement in communist Poland and its residual effect on the Polish society and politics in the immediate and long term perspectives following the 1989 changes. This session took place at the 2010 Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict.

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