Kim Sengupta, The Independent, February 17, 2011Clashes between protesters and security forces left dozens of people injured in Libya yesterday, as the upheavals which led to the overthrow of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt continued to spread acros...
Democracy Now!Kim Sengupta, The Independent, February 17, 2011Clashes between protesters and security forces left dozens of people injured in Libya yesterday, as the upheavals which led to the overthrow of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt continued to spread acros...
Larry Diamond, The New Republic, February 16, 2011After the peaceful mass uprising that toppled one of the world’s oldest autocracies, it is now possible to imagine the emergence of a genuine democracy in Egypt. However, there is a long and often t...
Rukmini Callimachi, Huffington Post, February 18, 2011A man who set himself on fire in front of the presidential palace in Senegal on Friday died from his wounds hours later in the latest self-immolation on the African continent.
Michael Allen, Democracy Digest, February 18, 2011China’s communist authorities have launched a fierce crackdown on human rights activists and legal advocates in response to a campaign in support of Chen Guangcheng, the blind, self-taught “barefo...
2011 has begun as a momentous year in the history and practice of nonviolent civil resistance. Tunisia and Egypt have sparked movements across North Africa and the Middle East as ordinary people rise up to resist the autocracy, corruption, and abuse they have lived under for decades. This method of struggle is by no means
The residents of al-Arakib, a Bedouin village in Israel’s Negev Desert, refuse to leave and they refuse to cease rebuilding, despite 17 demolitions in a span of just eight months - the most recent taking place on Wednesday. As the number of demolitions has risen, the severity of force used against al-Arakib residents, who rightfully
Tomorrow, we were scheduled to go for a demonstration in the Nativity Square. The collective decision was to delay this for a few days to give us time to digest the changes happening (see below) and soon to happen around us and put the best...
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee has just put “Death and Taxes,” a film they made on war tax resisters and their motives, online. You can also download a teacher’s guide, find or organize a screening of the fil...
In Egypt, hundreds of workers went on strike on Thursday along the Suez Canal, one of the world’s strategic waterways, joining workers at textile mills, pharmaceutical plants, chemical industries, the Cairo airport, the transportation sector and banks pressing demands for better wages and conditions. Around 1,500 Jordanians demonstrated on Wednesday in the northern city of
It’s a happy day when good ideas—and the people who create them—get their due. Today was one of those days. Thanks in large part to The New York Times’s feature on the backdrop of the revolution in Egypt, and then a profile devoted to him (which as I write is still #1 on the most-emailed
Hats off to the good people of Wisconsin who are standing up. I’ve been glued to the screen and tweeting about it all day. It’s great to see some courage from progressive Democratic office holders. It’s a good reminder for all of us w...
Charles Levinson and Margaret Coker had an extraordinary article in the Wall Street Journal last week explaining how the Cairo protests were anything but spontaneous and unplanned—and how they depended on more than Facebook: The plotters, who now form the leadership core of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, which has stepped to the fore as representatives
Virtually all analyses that I have encountered in the mainstream media on the Tunisian and Egyptian democracy uprisings have emphasized material causes: poverty, widespread unemployment, food prices, lack of political participation, corruption, denial of human rights, oppression, torture and so on. These may be grounds for deep grievances. But they do not explain the sweep
Dr. Awad, President of Nonviolence International, spoke on Marty Moss-Coane’s show today on NPR with Gene Sharp, and Sherif Mansour. Dr. Awad spoke out strongly for nonviolence throughout the Middle East and the World. You may find the show here. … Continue reading →
In a front page article in today's (Feb. 17) New York Times, misleading statements were made about the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. Read our response here.
The debate about whether a particular civil society struggle is nonviolent or not is interesting, I suppose--"I'll take Intifadas for $300"--but I think more to the point is attempting to estimate the effects of tactics. Did Egyptians win their struggl...
