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Let Them Eat Buns: The Power of Non-Violent Social Movements

Let Them Eat Buns: The Power of Non-Violent Social Movements
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Let Them Eat Buns: The Power of Non-Violent Social Movements

Supporting civil society is an important area for development assistance in countries experiencing conflict or undergoing political transitions. Specifically, movements for social change that espouse non-violent means can enhance a country’s successful transition and longer-term peacebuilding and statebuilding goals. There is a growing body of evidence which finds that not only are non-violent movements more successful in achieving their goals, but that such changes are far more internally peaceful and more durable if they have been achieved through non-violent means rather than through violent conflict. As Martin Luther King, Jr. advised us, “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows;” we need to integrate support for non-violent social movements into our strategies for achieving lasting and equitable change.

Sadaf Lakhani

wagingnonviolence.org
Originally published by the United States Institute of Peace’s International Network for Economics and Conflict
January 21, 2014

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