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What's New
ICNC Films
With this week’s U.N. observance of International Nelson Mandela Day, ICNC Films is pleased to introduce #FilmFriday, a limited series of compelling, historic segments from the classic and award-winning civil resistance documentary, A Force More Powerful.
Each month, a new segment will be released on a Friday in various languages.
Our inaugural release in this series is the segment covering the 1930 Salt March in India, the 1960 sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee; and the 1985 anti-apartheid boycotts in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. This segment will be released on Friday, July 19th in English, French, Pashto, Polish, Spanish and Vietnamese.
Future segment release dates are tentatively scheduled as follows (Dates are subject to change.):
· Friday, August 9
· Friday, September 20
· Friday, October 4
· Friday, November 15
For full versions and more information on A Force More Powerful and other documentaries – each in an array of languages – visit our ICNC Films page.
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Cómo el levantamiento por la democracia de Sudán sacude los mitos prevalecientes sobre la Resistencia Civil
Nuevo de Minds of the Movement en español: Una poderosa insurrección civil por la democracia en Sudán que ha derrocado a un dictador que ha permanecido por mucho tiempo en el poder, y con el sucesor aún en proceso de designación los sudaneses están esperanzados de obtener una completa transición a la democracia.
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Las manifestaciones comenzaron en diciembre del año pasado, inicialmente enfocadas en el deterioro de la situación económica, pero pronto escalaron a demandar que el autoritario Presidente Omar al-Bashir —quien había gobernado el país por casi tres décadas— abandonase el poder y se restaurara la democracia. Para el mes de enero las protestas se habían extendido a la capital, Jartum, ganando el apoyo de movimientos de jóvenes y mujeres, así como de un gran número de partidos de oposición. Durante la tercera semana de febrero, el gobierno declaró el estado de emergencia, incrementando los arrestos de opositores y censurando la cobertura de la prensa hacia el movimiento. A pesar de la creciente represión, así como de una reorganización del gabinete para apaciguar a la oposición, las protestas continuaron [...] -
Apply for an ICNC High School Curriculum Fellowship! (Deadline August 11)
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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Watch a Chinese-language translation of the ICNC Film 'Egypt: Revolution Interrupted?'
For thirty years, President Hosni Mubarak had ruled Egypt by manipulating elections, crushing dissent, and jailing and torturing his opponents [...]
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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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Cómo el levantamiento por la democracia de Sudán sacude los mitos prevalecientes sobre la Resistencia Civil
ICNC focuses on how ordinary people wage nonviolent conflict to win rights, freedom and justice.
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The “Strategy Web”: The Little-Known Tool for Visualizing Civil Resistance-Led Conflict
On the Minds of the Movement blog, Maciej Bartkowski writes: "The strategy web of vulnerabilities and resiliencies is a tool that, to my knowledge, has not been used in the civil resistance field despite its direct relevance to practitioners’ work, as well as the insight it can provide to movement and campaign analysts. [...]"
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The Activists’ Creed: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
As we mark today exactly two years since launching ICNC's blog, Minds of the Movement, blog co-editor Deborah Mathis invites readers to pause and reflect on ordinary people's agency to overcome oppression throughout history. She evokes this summer's 400th anniversary of enslaved Africans’ first landing in the United States, writing: "Colonial oppressors had their laws then, and modern despots have theirs today. They can ban the meetings, shut down Twitter, and burn the books. But the indomitable, immutable human spirit always finds a workaround..."
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