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2 unusual facts about civil resistance


Civil resistance

Ackerman, Peter and Jack DuVall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, New York: Palgrave, 2000.

Ackerman, Peter and Christopher Kruegler, Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1994.


Insurgency

There have been many cases of non-violent rebellions, using civil resistance, as in the People Power Revolution in the Philippines in the 1980s that ousted President Marcos and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.


see also

National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance

Among the largest and most significant of NCNR's acts of civil resistance was the September 26, 2005 action at the White House sidewalk, with Cindy Sheehan, following a major anti-war mobilization.

Palestinian political violence

In 1987, a mass revolt, of predominantly civil resistance, called the First Intifada, exploded, leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991, and subsequently to the Oslo I Accord, which produced an interim understanding allowing a new Palestinian authority, the PNA to exercise limited autonomy in 3% (later 17%) of the West Bank, and parts of the Gaza Strip not used or earmarked for Israeli settlement.

People Power: The Game of Civil Resistance

It is the second video game focused on civil resistance and nonviolent conflict from filmmaker Steve York and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.