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In reply to the discussion: The staged performance and then the betrayal [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)131. Absolutely.
For the dozenth time (at least), I cite the following:
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare) Paperback December 11, 2012
by Erica Chenoweth (Author), Maria J. Stephan (Author)
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories.
Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment.
Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
by Erica Chenoweth (Author), Maria J. Stephan (Author)
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories.
Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment.
Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Civil-Resistance-Works-Nonviolent/dp/0231156839/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1431657244&sr=8-1&keywords=chenoweth+stephan
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Those who vote for this will be rewarded by the beneficiaries of this atrocious
sabrina 1
May 2015
#5
The party isn't gonna change. Period. At least not in your lifetime, or the next one.
jtuck004
May 2015
#14
"The love of money is the root of all evil" < That explains a lot of our problems. n/t
jtuck004
May 2015
#184
'Religion" is not used as a deity construct, it is being used as a belief in what used to be the
djean111
May 2015
#28
This is too important to play dimwitted "let's get a post locked" games.
DisgustipatedinCA
May 2015
#30
Losing one's religion is just a saying, it has nothing to do with organized religion/deities.
cui bono
May 2015
#114
I've been afk a bit, what have I missed, what is this in reference to?
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
May 2015
#15
Actually, I'm guessing at that part because the information I've seen is sketchy.
randome
May 2015
#36
That's it. I knew I had it wrong but I wasn't able to find the posts for it. Thanks.
randome
May 2015
#43
A lot of the Dems who voted against the TPP fast tracking reversed their votes, so now
Nay
May 2015
#34
Agree. Protecting human rights as well as corporate rights is not anti free trade.
think
May 2015
#33
I'm waiting for a single BOG er to wake the hell up and admit what this president has done
Doctor_J
May 2015
#86
They insult the very people who put them in office. Why do they even bother to hide this
Elwood P Dowd
May 2015
#140
At the end of "Joe's Garage," Joe - who only ever wanted to play guitar - has been stripped of
RadiationTherapy
May 2015
#208
Here is the greatest example of the point and one of Frank's most exquisite works.
RadiationTherapy
May 2015
#210
I had hoped my anger over this outragous betrayal would have subsided somewhat by now.
99Forever
May 2015
#193