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ICNC focuses on how ordinary people wage nonviolent conflict to win rights, freedom and justice.

  • New Publication:

    Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave:
    A Playbook for Countering the Authoritarian Threat

    Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave combines insights on civil resistance, democratic waves, autocratization and democratic backsliding, international law, and other disciplines to advance a foreign policy approach that supports and enables pro-democracy and human rights movements. It:

    1. Proposes new approaches and tools to support civil resistance movements

    2. Advances a new international norm — the “Right to Assistance”

    3. Develops strategic and tactical options to constrain authoritarian regimes and drive up the cost of their repression

    Download a Free Copy
  • New ICNC Monograph:

    Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine: A Strategic Perspective

    How do prison hunger strikers achieve demands? How do they stay connected with the outside world in a space that is designed to cut them off from that world? And why would a prisoner put their lives at risk by refusing to eat or, at times, drink?

    Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine evaluates the process of hunger striking, including the repressive actions prisoners encounter, and the negotiation process. It analyzes differences and similarities between individual and collective strikes, and evaluates the role and impact of solidarity actions from outside the prison walls.

    Download a Free Copy
  • New Special Report:

    Dollars and Dissent: Donor Support for Grassroots Organizing and Nonviolent Movements


    Drawing on in-depth interviews and surveys with donors and grantees, this report outlines trends in donor support and details how donors’ values, organizational structures, and perceptions of risk affect their support for the work of grassroots organizers and nonviolent social movements. Furthermore, this report assists donors seeking to deepen their understanding of whether, when, where, and how to provide this support.

    Watch the webinar with author Benjamin Naimark-Rowse.

    Download a Free Copy
  • ICNC Announces Ivan Marovic as new Executive Director; Hardy Merriman to return as President

    With unanimous support from the Board of Directors, Ivan Marovic is now ICNC’s new Executive Director. Hardy Merriman has agreed to return to the role of President.

    ICNC Executive Director Ivan Marovic

    Marovic and Merriman will work together to expand ICNC’s core programs and diversify funding sources—including soliciting philanthropic grants as well as pursuing consulting relationships with organizations that seek to engage ICNC’s expertise in civil resistance, movement building, training, research, education, and other areas.

    Read the full announcement
  • For Activists & Organizers

    How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements

    by Steve Chase

    History shows us that peoples’ movements are more likely to suc­ceed when they have unity among supporters, widespread participa­tion, strategic planning, and non­violent discipline. Unsurprisingly, movement opponents use agent provocateurs—fake activists work­ing undercover—to behave in counterproductive ways that undermine these four keys to success.

    Drawing from international exam­ples, and an in-depth case study of the US Black Liberation Movement, this volume explores how agent provocateurs—and agent provoca­teur-like behavior—make movements smaller, weaker, and easier to de­feat. It also offers some ideas for how activists can inoculate their movements against such harms and increase their chances of success.

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  • Second edition of :

    The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns

    by Ivan Marovic

    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, who wish to grow their resistance activities into a more strategic, fixed-term campaign. It guides readers through the campaign planning process, breaking it down into several steps and providing tools and exercises for each step.

    The Second Edition released in March 2021 includes chapters on tactics and running a tactical planning workshop, and a Foreword by Hardy Merriman.

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    • Second edition: English
    • First edition: Catalan | French | Polish | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Spanish | Urdu

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  • Visit our full resource library to find hundreds of resources on civil resistance in English and over 70 languages.

    Or, if you are interested in civil resistance and don’t know where to start, we’ve made a list of general introductory resources–many of them short articles–to introduce you to the field. See our list of ten key resources for activists and organizers.

    Visit the Resource Library
  • ICNC Translations Program

    Translating civil resistance literature into diverse languages is one of the most powerful ways to spread knowledge and increase the effectiveness of nonviolent movements struggling for rights, freedom, and justice. Learn more about our translations program or read our glossary of key terms.

    We also currently host resources on civil resistance in over 70 languages and dialects on our website.

    Find Translated Resources
  • For Scholars & Students

     

    The 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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  • Academic Online Curriculum

    ICNC’s Academic Online Curriculum on Civil Resistance (AOC) is an online resource to advance curriculum development, teaching, and research on civil resistance. It offers an extensive and regularly updated set of resources in this field, organized into clearly structured topics and case studies, and drawn in part from content that we and various academic collaborators developed for the ICNC university seminars we’ve led since 2009.

    Anyone can register to use the AOC at any time and it is free to use.

    Topics on the AOC include:

    – Civil Resistance: Nature, Ideas and History
    – Strategic Considerations in Civil Resistance Struggles
    – Types of Civil Resistance Struggles

    And more!

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  • Calls from ICNC Academic Initiatives

    Throughout the year, ICNC is offering a number of academic opportunities, resources, and support that it  makes available to scholars and students. The field of civil resistance has grown immensely and these academic programs aim to respond to the growing demand for knowledge and skills and contribute to expanding the quality of education, research, and curriculum related to civil resistance. This page includes the current and past calls for the ICNC’s educational and research programs, such as learning opportunities, curriculum support, and research grants.

    One of our calls, the Rapid Field Research and Data Collection Program, accepts applications on a rolling basis and interested applicants can apply for the program throughout the year.

    Learn More
  • New from ICNC Press:

    Preventing Mass Atrocities: From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance
    by Peter Ackerman and Hardy Merriman
    Available in: English, Arabic, and Spanish

    Events of the last decade demand new approaches to atrocity prevention that are adaptable, innovative and independent of a state-centered doctrine. With the aim of reducing risk factors such as civil war, we argue for a new normative framework called The Right to Assist (RtoA). […]

    See ICNC Press Publications
  • For the Policy Community

    New Publication:

    Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave:
    A Playbook for Countering the Authoritarian Threat

    Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave combines insights on civil resistance, democratic waves, autocratization and democratic backsliding, international law, and other disciplines to advance a foreign policy approach that supports and enables pro-democracy and human rights movements. It:

    1. Proposes new approaches and tools to support civil resistance movements

    2. Advances a new international norm — the “Right to Assistance”

    3. Develops strategic and tactical options to constrain authoritarian regimes and drive up the cost of their repression

    Download a Free Copy
  • ICNC Releases Major Study on International Support to Nonviolent Campaigns

    ICNC is proud to present the newest addition to its popular Monograph Series, The Role of External Support in Nonviolent Campaigns: Poisoned Chalice or Holy Grail? by Drs. Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, authors of the groundbreaking civil resistance classic, Why Civil Resistance Works.

    Published by ICNC Press, this new report employs original, qualitative, and quantitative data to examine the ways that external assistance impacted the characteristics and success rates of post-2000 revolutionary nonviolent uprisings.

    Download the full monograph for free here.

    Watch the March 3 webinar with the renowned authors here.

    Read More
  • Minds of the Movement Blog

     

    Minds 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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  • NEW BLOG POST

    Thibault Lauroa writes: “With Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial judicial reform on hold since Monday, the country’s population finds itself not at ease but only at a new crossroads in their struggle to protect their country’s democracy. A multi-sector strike, more than 12 weeks of intensifying protests, and dissent and defections among Israeli officials on numerous fronts… since the beginning of this year, Israel has been experiencing its largest demonstrations in a decade. […]”

    Read more!
  • Tom Hastings writes: “On June 11, 1963, Thích Quảng Đức, a 65-year-old Buddhist Mahayana monk, arrived in a car along with two other monks at the intersection of Phan Đình Phùng Boulevard and Lê Văn Duyệt Street, a few blocks southwest of the Presidential Palace in Saigon. One monk carried a cushion into the intersection and placed it on the pavement. While Thích Quảng Đức proceeded to walk to the cushion and sit down in a lotus position, another monk carried over a five-gallon can of gasoline and poured it on Thích Quảng Đức, who calmly lit himself on fire. […]”

    Read more!
  • Seyedeh Faezeh Alavi writes: “Shadowed by many breaking headlines and increasingly brutal repression, the Iranian revolution for secular democracy continues to forge ahead. Soon in its fifth month, the uprising has taken root across Iran. Its widening geographic spread and deepening diversity of participants have been met with an intensified crackdown ordered by the Islamic regime–evidence that its grip on power is slipping. […]”

    Read more!

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