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    9 days ago

    I couldn’t get past the 4th example of “non-violence” without laughing at how wildly revisionist they are. While each of these had non-violent components, none of them would have succeeded without violence.

    I believe the violent aspects of these resistances are considered and included in the overall analysis in the book I linked.

    I think you may be jumping to conclusions when you see something that doesn’t immediately fall into your own views. Those examples are clearly a simplified and truncated set to quickly get the point across for the purpose of an “About Us” page while there is lots of in-depth information available throughout the site.

    If you have qualms with their findings or data, you’d be better off taking it up with them instead of me. I don’t purport to be an expert on this subject. I am only relaying that there is plenty of credible research, data, and analysis that shows that non-violent resistance is effective.

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    Here you can see how and why the book defines these. The book and its author is a major resource for the website.

    https://www.ericachenoweth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/WCRW-Appendix.pdf