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Crosspost by Maria J. Stephan: “People Power Can Boost the Afghan Peace Process”
Here is a guest crosspost from Maria J. Stephan, who wrote a great piece today on her experience working on Why Civil Resistance Works while stationed in Afghanistan in 2009-2010 – as well as the book’s lessons for the current peace process in Afghanistan. Maria is currently the Director of the Program on Nonviolent Action at the U.S. Institute of Peace, which conducts research, training & educati
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“nonviolent campaigns facilitate the active participation of many more people than violent campaigns, thereby broadening the base of resistance and raising the costs to opponents of maintaining the status quo.”
― Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
― Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
“Regardless, the notion that nonviolent action can be successful only if the adversary does not use violent repression is neither theoretically nor historically substantiated.”
― Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
― Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
“Many movements find it extremely difficult to help others imagine and create alternatives to any existing system, especially alternatives that would appeal to a broad coalition-and that becomes more difficult when the system is complex and self-reinforcing. As Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has said regarding the global economic system in particular, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know®
― Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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