Social Movements: Power from Above and Below (FSI 2010)
Dr. Doug McAdam
Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
Using the U.S. civil rights movement as a principal example, Dr. McAdam’s talk at the 2010 Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict (FSI) examines how mixtures of top down environmental facilitation and bottom up grass roots activism can fuel successful social movements. While FSI understandably puts emphasis on the latter, a full understanding of the prospects for significant social change requires that activists understand the critical reciprocal relationship between people power and the shifting environmental circumstances they confront.
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
ICNC FSI Video, June 24, 2010
