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What's New
Apply Now!Apply Now for ICNC’s Free Fall Online Course: “People Power: The Strategic Dynamics of Civil Resistance”
Would learning more about civil resistance movements help you be a more effective activist, journalist, scholar, or policymaker? For the fourth consecutive year, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and the Rutgers International Institute for Peace are offering our free, two-month, online course, “People Power: The Strategic Dynamics of Civil Resistance.” In this course, more than 50 highly motivated and collaborative participants from around the world will join a dynamic online learning community guided by course moderators selected from ICNC’s staff and Academic Council.
Course Dates: October 2 through November 22, 2019
Application Deadline: Sunday, September 22nd at 11:59pm EDT
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New 'Minds of the Movement' blog post: 'Four Ways We Can Engage with the Global Community of Civil Resistance'
Minds of the Movement Managing Editor, Amber French: "We can engage through small acts of support, by improving our knowledge about movements, and by applying that knowledge in our daily activities and conversations. If profiles as diverse as an anthropologist in Puerto Rico, a director of a good governance NGO in Zimbabwe, a citizen journalist in Singapore, a National Minister of Culture in Armenia, a professor of peace psychology, and a front-line activist against modern-day slavery in Mauritania can do this, then ordinary, conscientious world citizens like us can too. [...]"
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Apply for an ICNC High School Curriculum Fellowship! (Deadline Extended to September 8)
ICNC is issuing the fourth call for its civil resistance education grant for innovative high school educators from around the world [...]
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'Mind of the Movement' blog post: 'From Local to Transnational: Puerto Ricans’ Struggle against Coal Ash Dumping'
Minds of the Movement blogger Sara Vazquez Melendez writes: "For the past 40 years, the community of Tallaboa Encarnación, in the municipality of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, has been the site of sustained civil resistance campaigns against environmental polluters in the area. Yet the struggle has intensified in the past few months..."
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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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The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns
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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ICNC Online Courses
ICNC focuses on how ordinary people wage nonviolent conflict to win rights, freedom and justice.
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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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Preventing Mass Atrocities: From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance
Events of the last decade demand new approaches to atrocity prevention that are adaptable, innovative and independent of a state-centered doctrine...
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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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Supporting Civil Resistance Movements: Considerations for Human Rights Funders and Organizations
What makes civil resistance movements effective? If funders and human rights organizations can identify key factors that answer this question, then their efforts can be oriented towards trying to support the development and growth of those factors. [...]
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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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Four Ways We Can Engage with the Global Community of Civil Resistance
Minds of the Movement Managing Editor, Amber French: "We can engage through small acts of support, by improving our knowledge about movements, and by applying that knowledge in our daily activities and conversations. If profiles as diverse as an anthropologist in Puerto Rico, a director of a good governance NGO in Zimbabwe, a citizen journalist in Singapore, a National Minister of Culture in Armenia, a professor of peace psychology, and a front-line activist against modern-day slavery in Mauritania can do this, then ordinary, conscientious world citizens like us can too. [...]"
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From Local to Transnational: Puerto Ricans’ Struggle against Coal Ash Dumping
Minds of the Movement blogger Sara Vazquez Melendez writes: "For the past 40 years, the community of Tallaboa Encarnación, in the municipality of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, has been the site of sustained civil resistance campaigns against environmental polluters in the area. Yet the struggle has intensified in the past few months..."
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Rural Ugandan Youth Turn to Direct Action, and It’s Curbing Deforestation
As part of Minds of the Movement's series on Civil Resistance for Environmental Justice, blogger Phil Wilmot reports: "Uganda’s forests are disappearing at disturbing rates. After tireless but unproductive advocacy efforts, a small group of young farmers in the remote district of Amuru may have found a hack to curb deforestation with direct action. This year they’ve already impounded 27 truckloads of charcoal." [...]
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