International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

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A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)

By Ekta Parishad, India
First published April 2020

This manual was supported by a grant from ICNC
50 pages

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

By: Ivan Marovic

ICNC Press (October 2018)
108 pages

The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline

Hardy Merriman

opendemocracy.net, November 19, 2010
5 pages

How the world is proving Martin Luther King right about nonviolence

Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan

Washington Post, January 18, 2016

The Checklist for Ending Tyranny

Peter Ackerman and Hardy Merriman
From the book: Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback?

Editors: Mathew Burrows and Maria Stephan
The Atlantic Council, 2015
15 pages

A Force More Powerful

Produced and Directed by Steve York
Series Editor and Principal Content Advisor: Peter Ackerman


154 minutes

Preventing Mass Atrocities: From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance

Peter Ackerman and Hardy Merriman

ICNC Special Report Series, May 2019
68 pages

Spectrum of Allies

From the book: Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns

Edited by Howard Clark, Javier Gárate, Joanne Sheehan, and Dorie Wilsnack

War Resisters' International, 2014
2 pages

Pillars of Support

From the book: CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle

Srdja Popovic, Slobodan Djinovic, Andrej Milivojevic, Hardy Merriman and Ivan Marovic

Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, 2007
7 pages

Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice

Shaazka Beyerle

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014
290 pages