International Center on Nonviolent Conflict

Resource Library

Swarthmore College’s Global Nonviolent Action Database


A project of Swarthmore College, 2011-present

Case studies of nonviolent campaigns


Organizing and Strategy in the U.S. Auto Workers Labor Movement of the 1930s


Previously titled: “Unions Have Been Down Before, History Shows How They Can Come Back”

George Lakey

wagingnonviolence.org, June 29, 2018
3 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: Matthew Burrows and Maria Stephan
The Atlantic Council, 2015
15 pages

Civil Resistance against Coups: A Comparative and Historical Perspective


Stephen Zunes

2017 ICNC Monograph Series
104 pages

Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice


Shaazka Beyerle

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014
290 pages

A Citizen Pillar Against Corruption: India (Chapter 7 from “Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice”)


Shaazka Beyerle

In Curtailing Corruption, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014
32 pages

Nonviolent Resistance Against the Mafia: Italy (Chapter 6 from “Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice”)


Shaazka Beyerle

In Curtailing Corruption, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014
22 pages

Corruption, People, and Power (Chapter 1 from “Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice”)


Shaazka Beyerle

In Curtailing Corruption, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2014
18 pages