Coalitions are among the most important tactical tools available for social movements and
civil resistance campaigns, as they enable the sharing of networks, resources, expertise …

A growing literature finds that nonviolence is more successful than violence in effecting
political change. We suggest that a focus on this association is incomplete, because it …

Previous research has shown that successful non-violent resistance (NVR) campaigns
promote democracy compared with violent revolutions and top-down liberalization …

Since the turn of the century, an increasing number of governments around the world has
introduced or tightened restrictions on civil society organizations (CSOs). Attempts by local …

How do we understand violent actions in social movements? Civil resistance research has
made strides in demonstrating the comparative efficacy of 'nonviolent'campaigns, and has …

This article extends the emergent focus on 'the everyday'in critical security studies to the
topic of nuclear (in) security, through an empirical study of anti-nuclear peace activists …

A common complaint about pacifism holds that it is utopian, in a pejorative sense. The worry
can take various forms and directions, but when it is couched in terms of just war theory it …

What is the relationship between nonviolence and the digital world? To map a possible
research agenda, we start from the observation that there is no more separation between …

Pacifism and nonviolence have separable foci and origins, yet also share important
similarities, and their respective histories are mutually imbricated. Both have, furthermore …

Studies of nonviolence have taught us much about what makes nonviolence successful,
emphasizing the importance of local circumstance and strategy. Little attention has been …