{"id":170,"date":"2008-11-16T02:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=170"},"modified":"2008-11-16T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T07:03:16","slug":"study-non-violence-works-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/study-non-violence-works-better\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: NON VIOLENCE WORKS BETTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenchange.org\/article.php?id=3576\" target=\"_blank\">The Progressive &#8211;<\/a> Nonviolent resistance is not only the morally superior choice. It is also twice as effective as the violent variety. That&#8217;s the startling and reassuring discovery by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth, who analyzed an astonishing 323 resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our findings show that major nonviolent campaigns have achieved success 53 percent of the time, compared with 26 percent for violent resistance campaigns,&#8221; the authors note in the journal International Security:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First, a campaign&#8217;s commitment to nonviolent methods enhances its domestic and international legitimacy and encourages more broad-based participation in the resistance, which translates into increased pressure being brought to bear on the target,&#8221; they state. &#8220;Second, whereas governments easily justify violent counterattacks against armed insurgents, regime violence against nonviolent movements is more likely to backfire against the regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In an interesting aside that has relevance for our times, the authors also write that, &#8220;Our study does not explicitly compare terrorism to nonviolent resistance, but our argument sheds light on why terrorism has been so unsuccessful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To their credit, the authors don&#8217;t gloss over nonviolent campaigns that haven&#8217;t been successes. They give a clear-eyed assessment of the failure so far of the nonviolent movement in Burma, one of the three detailed case studies in the piece, along with East Timor and the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Progressive &#8211; Nonviolent resistance is not only the morally superior choice. It is also twice as effective as the violent variety. That&#8217;s the startling and reassuring discovery by Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth, who analyzed an astonishing 323 resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006. &#8220;Our findings show that major nonviolent campaigns have achieved success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73,72,71],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seekers","tag-ascension","tag-cultural-revolution","tag-nonviolence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}