Sharp was inspired by his early studies of Gandhi, and his first book published in 1960 was "Gandhi Wields the Weapon of Moral Power: Three Case Histories." He wrote dozens of books and articles on
nonviolent resistance that have been translated into more than 50 languages.
This emerging alliance continues to explore more imaginative ways of principled
nonviolent resistance.
True, in a lot of these cases
nonviolent resistance doesn't seem to have succeeded.
"We are not equal to Israel in terms of military might, and therefore, we -- President Mahmoud Abbas and my government -- believe that
nonviolent resistance is a good way to get rid of this occupation," he said.
It's an incredible storyprobably the best-known example of mass civil disobedience and
nonviolent resistance to come out of WWII.
This collection of essays explores cases of
nonviolent resistance from around the world in relation to identity formation in national and other forms of collective struggle.
This victory for the combined approach of legal challenge and peaceful public protest was one of the first successful applications of King's teaching and strategy of
nonviolent resistance. On June 4, 1957, at the invitation of the local YMCA and YWCA, King gave this speech at the University of California at Berkeley, in which he explained the philosophy and strategy of nonviolence.
The authors of Why Civil Resistance Works present empirical evidence that, contrary to conventional wisdom,
nonviolent resistance campaigns succeed at overthrowing regimes twice as often as violent campaigns, even in cases of a highly repressive state.
IJV Canada will be represented at the Global March by Vancouver Chapter member Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, author of Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli
Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation.
There is a long history of
nonviolent resistance in the Middle East, from Egypt's 1919 independence struggle against the British to the 2006 Cedar Revolution in Lebanon that ended years of Syrian domination of that country.