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The 126 pages that link to Nonviolent resistance, each with the reason it gives.
Civil disobedienceNarrower topic: Civil disobedience is one way nonviolent resistance confronts unjust authority.
Martin Luther King Jr.Narrower topic: King treated nonviolence as both a practical method and a moral commitment.
Arab SpringNarrower topic: Many early demonstrations relied on marches, strikes, and other forms of nonviolent pressure.
Anti-apartheid movementNarrower topic: It describes a major repertoire of protest, though resistance also included armed struggle.
People Power RevolutionNarrower topic: The uprising’s civilian presence and restraint helped deter a violent crackdown.
Orange RevolutionNarrower topic: The movement relied on demonstrations, strikes, and public noncooperation rather than armed revolt.
Bayard RustinNarrower topic: Rustin treated nonviolence as both a moral commitment and a practical discipline for organizing.
Non-cooperation movementNarrower topic: Gandhi framed non-cooperation as a disciplined form of nonviolent resistance.
April RevolutionNarrower topic: The uprising illustrates how sustained public protest can force a ruler from office.
Peaceful RevolutionNarrower topic: The movement is a major historical case of mass nonviolent resistance.
8888 UprisingNarrower topic: The uprising relied heavily on demonstrations, strikes, and public assembly.
Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceNarrower topic: The conference made nonviolent action the guiding method of its campaigns.
Defiance CampaignNarrower topic: Organizers made disciplined nonviolence the campaign’s defining method.
Joan BaezNarrower topic: It guided Baez’s protest work, from civil disobedience to opposition to war.
Madres de Plaza de MayoNarrower topic: The mothers used persistent public presence rather than armed action to challenge the dictatorship.
SatyagrahaNarrower topic: Satyagraha is a distinctive ethical method within this broader family of resistance.
Birmingham campaignNarrower topic: Nonviolent discipline shaped the campaign’s protests despite violent repression.
Iranian Green MovementNarrower topic: The movement relied chiefly on demonstrations, strikes, and other nonviolent actions.
Pablo CasalsNarrower topic: Casals’s refusal to perform for Franco’s Spain was a sustained nonviolent protest.
Hong Kong democracy movementNarrower topic: It provides a broader framework for comparing the movement’s occupations, marches, and other protest tactics.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating CommitteeNarrower topic: Nonviolent direct action shaped SNCC’s early protests and its public identity.
Ken Saro-WiwaNarrower topic: MOSOP presented its campaign as nonviolent resistance to state and corporate power.
Tulip RevolutionNarrower topic: The uprising relied chiefly on mass protest, although violence and disorder accompanied parts of the upheaval.
Baltic WayNarrower topic: The protest challenged Soviet rule through peaceful collective action rather than armed force.
Dolores HuertaNarrower topic: Boycotts and marches placed Huerta’s labor campaigns within a wider tradition of nonviolent pressure.
Revolution of DignityNarrower topic: Much of the movement relied on public assembly, strikes, and other forms of civilian protest.
Tobacco protestNarrower topic: Tobacco protests can use demonstrations, petitions, boycotts, or civil disobedience.
Fred ShuttlesworthNarrower topic: Shuttlesworth used nonviolent action to confront segregation and expose attacks on demonstrators.
Ibrahim RugovaNarrower topic: It was the central method Rugova used to mobilize Kosovo Albanians.
Ralph AbernathyNarrower topic: It was the central strategy of the campaigns Abernathy organized with King.
Tawakkol KarmanNarrower topic: Karman’s public campaigns relied on protests and other nonviolent methods.
Coretta Scott KingNarrower topic: She carried nonviolent action from the movement into her later advocacy.
Abdul Ghaffar KhanNarrower topic: Khan made nonviolence the organizing principle of Pashtun resistance to British rule.
Carlos Filipe Ximenes BeloNarrower topic: Belo’s public appeals sought political change through dialogue and international pressure rather than armed struggle.
Leymah GboweeNarrower topic: The women’s campaign used public, nonviolent pressure rather than armed force.
Shirin EbadiNarrower topic: Ebadi has advocated lawful, peaceful methods for advancing democracy and rights.
Mairead MaguireNarrower topic: It provides the central method and principle of Maguire’s public activism.