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What's New
Learn MoreWatch ICNC’s latest webinar – ‘How We Win: Reflections on Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning’!
In this webinar, George Lakey, a long time social movement organizer and the author of the book How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning, shares some of the key lessons he’s learned about how to organize powerful, strategic, and effective movements.
As George notes, the nonviolent direct action campaign is an art form that includes not only strategy and tactics but also the organizational culture of the initiating/leading campaign group, which needs to be a “learning organization.” In many situations the goal is not only the campaign’s own “win,” but also stimulating a social movement and even a movement of movements for fundamental social transformation.
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ICNC Releases New Practical Guide on Planning Nonviolent Campaigns, For Activists of All Levels
The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns is a practical guide for activists and organizers of all levels...
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How Can Movements Bounce Back from a Harmful Media Narrative?
The harmful media narrative put the Kenyan human rights movement on the defense, forcing it to deal with humiliation, shame, and social polarization, instead of focusing on its nonviolent struggle to end extrajudicial killings. But the movement is now picking up the pieces and finding ways to bounce back from the attack. [...]
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Defection as Therapy? A Closer Look at the Trauma of Repressing
Would suffering from Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS) symptoms make agents of repression more likely to defect, or less? Do those suffering from PITS find defection to be a good therapy, and if so, is there a way of using this knowledge to encourage defections? [...]
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For Activists & Organizers
Learn MoreICNC provides practical and relevant information and educational opportunities about civil resistance to activists and organizers around the world.
Our view is that nonviolent struggle is a social science that can be studied and understood, and that practitioners can increase their chances of success by learning lessons from each other as well as from cutting edge academic scholarship on this topic.
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Protest is Not Enough: Nonviolent Struggles against Corruption in Nigeria and Romania
Anti-corruption movements, campaigns, and civic initiatives have become a familiar phenomenon in civil resistance and reform-oriented uprisings in many countries, particularly in the Global South. But what specific tactics and broader approach can people utilize to turn an anti-corruption movement into real change?
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Grants & Funding
ICNC offers a wide range of funding and grant opportunities. Numerous Field Initiatives programs are ...
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ICNC Translations Program
Translating civil resistance literature into diverse languages is one of the most powerful ways to spread knowledge and increase the effectiveness ...
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For Scholars & Students
Learn MoreThe discipline of civil resistance has developed enormously in recent years, driven by new quantitative and qualitative scholarly research, as well as by numerous nonviolent movements around the world.
ICNC runs a number of grant-supported academic and educational programs to meet the growing demand for cutting edge research, applied knowledge and practical skills in this field. Look at our research, writing, teaching and other educational offerings and review current calls for proposals or applications.
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ICNC Online Courses
ICNC offers a wealth of opportunities for online learning about civil resistance. This includes fully moderated and participant-led online courses ...
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Calls from ICNC Academic Initiatives
ICNC focuses on how ordinary people wage nonviolent conflict to win rights, freedom and justice.
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ICNC Press and Publications
New from ICNC Press: A book on the relationship between communications and nonviolent resistance captures a new understanding of the events that [...]
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For the Policy Community
Learn MoreCivil resistance movements have a proven role in advancing human rights, democratic governance, and curtailing corruption. They are a critical factor in addressing root causes of human suffering and reducing deadly violence in the world.
It is incumbent for members of the policy community who care about these issues to understand how movements work; their historic record of making change; and when, how, and under what circumstances external actors can take actions that are helpful to movements.
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ICNC Releases New Practical Guide on Planning Nonviolent Campaigns, For Activists of All Levels
The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns is a practical guide for activists and organizers of all levels...
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Powering to Peace: Integrated Civil Resistance and Peacebuilding Strategies
This report explores the complementary ideas and practices that civil resistance and peacebuilding approaches present, each from different points ...
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Nonviolent Conflict News
NVCNews.org provides a window into in-depth analysis of civil resistance movements, their dynamics, and the full range of nonviolent tactics [...]
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Minds of the Movement Blog
Learn MoreMinds of the Movement is a blog for those interested in the ideas and experiences of people on the front line of civil resistance, and those who seek to understand the art and science of nonviolent struggle.
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How Can Movements Bounce Back from a Harmful Media Narrative?
The harmful media narrative put the Kenyan human rights movement on the defense, forcing it to deal with humiliation, shame, and social polarization, instead of focusing on its nonviolent struggle to end extrajudicial killings. But the movement is now picking up the pieces and finding ways to bounce back from the attack. [...]
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Defection as Therapy? A Closer Look at the Trauma of Repressing
Would suffering from Perpetration-Induced Traumatic Stress (PITS) symptoms make agents of repression more likely to defect, or less? Do those suffering from PITS find defection to be a good therapy, and if so, is there a way of using this knowledge to encourage defections? [...]
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Protest is Not Enough: Nonviolent Struggles against Corruption in Nigeria and Romania
Anti-corruption movements, campaigns, and civic initiatives have become a familiar phenomenon in civil resistance and reform-oriented uprisings in many countries, particularly in the Global South. But what specific tactics and broader approach can people utilize to turn an anti-corruption movement into real change?
Read More
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