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ABOUT US – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION About Us. The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.

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Nonviolent Action. The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. But, what is nonviolent action and how can it be used to defend democratic freedoms, oppose dictatorships and other oppressors, and to reduce the institutional reliance on violence as an instrument GENE SHARP’S ACADEMIC LEGACY Gene Sharp was an historic analyst and theoretician. He can be spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., all of whom critically understood that one’s beliefs must be linked to a technique of action. Beliefs are not enough. Gene was a major progenitor for establishing the field of nonviolent civil resistance

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All material appearing in this publication is in the public domain Citation of the source, and notification to the Albert Einstein Institution for the reproduction, HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSNONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP how nonviolenT sTruggle works prefaCe xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai- THERE ARE REALISTIC ALTERNATIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS. C. HAPTER. O. NE. 1 Developing a Realistic Alternative to War and Other Violence The need for a means of waging conflicts 2 There is another technique of struggle 4 HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSGENE SHARP WRITTEN WORKS PREFACE xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai-me González Bernal in Spanish in Mexico and THE ANTI-COUPCOUP D ETAT CROSSWORDCOUP D ETAT PRONOUNCECOUP D ETAT DÉFINITIONCOUP D ETAT TRUMPUS COUP D ETATWHAT DOES COUP D ETAT MEAN THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of ON STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT CONFLICT APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Important Terms in 145 Nonviolent Struggle APPENDIX 2 Methods of Nonviolent Action 153 APPENDIX 3 Example of Problem Solving Using 161 Staff Study Format APPENDIX 4 Suggested Format for Preparing a 165 Strategic Estimate FIGURES FIGURE 1 Monolithic Model of Power 167 FIGURE 2 Pluralistic Model of Power 169 FIGURE 3 Pillars of Support 171 FIGURE ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp. in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflict. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political. violence through the use of nonviolent action. Our goals are to understand the

dynamics.

ABOUT US – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION About Us. The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.

NONVIOLENT ACTION

Nonviolent Action. The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. But, what is nonviolent action and how can it be used to defend democratic freedoms, oppose dictatorships and other oppressors, and to reduce the institutional reliance on violence as an instrument GENE SHARP’S ACADEMIC LEGACY Gene Sharp was an historic analyst and theoretician. He can be spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., all of whom critically understood that one’s beliefs must be linked to a technique of action. Beliefs are not enough. Gene was a major progenitor for establishing the field of nonviolent civil resistance

TO DEMOCRACY

All material appearing in this publication is in the public domain Citation of the source, and notification to the Albert Einstein Institution for the reproduction, HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSNONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP how nonviolenT sTruggle works prefaCe xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai- THERE ARE REALISTIC ALTERNATIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS. C. HAPTER. O. NE. 1 Developing a Realistic Alternative to War and Other Violence The need for a means of waging conflicts 2 There is another technique of struggle 4 HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSGENE SHARP WRITTEN WORKS PREFACE xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai-me González Bernal in Spanish in Mexico and THE ANTI-COUPCOUP D ETAT CROSSWORDCOUP D ETAT PRONOUNCECOUP D ETAT DÉFINITIONCOUP D ETAT TRUMPUS COUP D ETATWHAT DOES COUP D ETAT MEAN THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of ON STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT CONFLICT APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Important Terms in 145 Nonviolent Struggle APPENDIX 2 Methods of Nonviolent Action 153 APPENDIX 3 Example of Problem Solving Using 161 Staff Study Format APPENDIX 4 Suggested Format for Preparing a 165 Strategic Estimate FIGURES FIGURE 1 Monolithic Model of Power 167 FIGURE 2 Pluralistic Model of Power 169 FIGURE 3 Pillars of Support 171 FIGURE ENGLISH – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America 1931-1961. Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany. Nonviolent Resistance in Lithuania. Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia. Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle. Tyranny Could Not Quell Them!

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CONTACT – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION E mail address: info@aeinstein.org . Postal address: P.O. Box 455, East Boston, MA 02128, USA 198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION 198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION. Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of “nonviolent weapons” at their disposal. Listed below are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. WHAT IS NONVIOLENT ACTION? What is nonviolent action? Nonviolent action (also sometimes referred to as people power, political defiance, and nonviolent struggle) is a technique of action for applying power in a conflict by using symbolic protests, noncooperation, and defiance, but not

DR. GENE SHARP

Dr. Gene Sharp, who has been called “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare,” founded the Albert Einstein Institution in 1983 to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and

oppression.

AMHARIC – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Political Equivalent of War: Civilian-Based Defense. Power, Struggle, and Defense. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle. Self-Liberation. Self-Liberation (Chinese) 自我解放. Self-Liberation (Vietnamese) TỰ GIẢI PHÓNG. Self-Liberation (English) Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War. Social Power and Political Freedom.

THE ANTI-COUP

THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of

SELF-LIBERATION

Self-Liberation 3 For definitions of strategic terms, read: The Politics of Non- violent Action, pp. 492-495; Waging Nonviolent Struggle, pp. 444-445 and 454-461; and The Politics of Nonviolent Action, pp. 504-510. ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp. in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflict. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political. violence through the use of nonviolent action. Our goals are to understand the

dynamics.

ABOUT US – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION About Us. The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.

NONVIOLENT ACTION

Nonviolent Action. The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. But, what is nonviolent action and how can it be used to defend democratic freedoms, oppose dictatorships and other oppressors, and to reduce the institutional reliance on violence as an instrument GENE SHARP’S ACADEMIC LEGACY Gene Sharp was an historic analyst and theoretician. He can be spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., all of whom critically understood that one’s beliefs must be linked to a technique of action. Beliefs are not enough. Gene was a major progenitor for establishing the field of nonviolent civil resistance

TO DEMOCRACY

All material appearing in this publication is in the public domain Citation of the source, and notification to the Albert Einstein Institution for the reproduction, HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSNONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP how nonviolenT sTruggle works prefaCe xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai- THERE ARE REALISTIC ALTERNATIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS. C. HAPTER. O. NE. 1 Developing a Realistic Alternative to War and Other Violence The need for a means of waging conflicts 2 There is another technique of struggle 4 HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSGENE SHARP WRITTEN WORKS PREFACE xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai-me González Bernal in Spanish in Mexico and THE ANTI-COUPCOUP D ETAT CROSSWORDCOUP D ETAT PRONOUNCECOUP D ETAT DÉFINITIONCOUP D ETAT TRUMPUS COUP D ETATWHAT DOES COUP D ETAT MEAN THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of ON STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT CONFLICT APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Important Terms in 145 Nonviolent Struggle APPENDIX 2 Methods of Nonviolent Action 153 APPENDIX 3 Example of Problem Solving Using 161 Staff Study Format APPENDIX 4 Suggested Format for Preparing a 165 Strategic Estimate FIGURES FIGURE 1 Monolithic Model of Power 167 FIGURE 2 Pluralistic Model of Power 169 FIGURE 3 Pillars of Support 171 FIGURE ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp. in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflict. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political. violence through the use of nonviolent action. Our goals are to understand the

dynamics.

ABOUT US – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION About Us. The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.

NONVIOLENT ACTION

Nonviolent Action. The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. But, what is nonviolent action and how can it be used to defend democratic freedoms, oppose dictatorships and other oppressors, and to reduce the institutional reliance on violence as an instrument GENE SHARP’S ACADEMIC LEGACY Gene Sharp was an historic analyst and theoretician. He can be spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., all of whom critically understood that one’s beliefs must be linked to a technique of action. Beliefs are not enough. Gene was a major progenitor for establishing the field of nonviolent civil resistance

TO DEMOCRACY

All material appearing in this publication is in the public domain Citation of the source, and notification to the Albert Einstein Institution for the reproduction, HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSNONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP how nonviolenT sTruggle works prefaCe xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai- THERE ARE REALISTIC ALTERNATIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS. C. HAPTER. O. NE. 1 Developing a Realistic Alternative to War and Other Violence The need for a means of waging conflicts 2 There is another technique of struggle 4 HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSGENE SHARP WRITTEN WORKS PREFACE xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai-me González Bernal in Spanish in Mexico and THE ANTI-COUPCOUP D ETAT CROSSWORDCOUP D ETAT PRONOUNCECOUP D ETAT DÉFINITIONCOUP D ETAT TRUMPUS COUP D ETATWHAT DOES COUP D ETAT MEAN THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of ON STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT CONFLICT APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Important Terms in 145 Nonviolent Struggle APPENDIX 2 Methods of Nonviolent Action 153 APPENDIX 3 Example of Problem Solving Using 161 Staff Study Format APPENDIX 4 Suggested Format for Preparing a 165 Strategic Estimate FIGURES FIGURE 1 Monolithic Model of Power 167 FIGURE 2 Pluralistic Model of Power 169 FIGURE 3 Pillars of Support 171 FIGURE ENGLISH – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America 1931-1961. Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany. Nonviolent Resistance in Lithuania. Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia. Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle. Tyranny Could Not Quell Them!

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The Monograph Series. Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America 1931-1961. Civilian-Based Defense in a new Era. Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions. Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia. Nonviolent Resistance in Lithuania. Nonviolent

Struggle and

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jamila Raqib. Jamila Raqib serves as the Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and as a Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds a degree in management from Simmons College. Jamila joined the Albert Einstein Institution in 2002, focusing on the

promotion

CONTACT – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION E mail address: info@aeinstein.org . Postal address: P.O. Box 455, East Boston, MA 02128, USA 198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION 198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION. Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of “nonviolent weapons” at their disposal. Listed below are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. WHAT IS NONVIOLENT ACTION? What is nonviolent action? Nonviolent action (also sometimes referred to as people power, political defiance, and nonviolent struggle) is a technique of action for applying power in a conflict by using symbolic protests, noncooperation, and defiance, but not

DR. GENE SHARP

Dr. Gene Sharp, who has been called “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare,” founded the Albert Einstein Institution in 1983 to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and

oppression.

AMHARIC – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Political Equivalent of War: Civilian-Based Defense. Power, Struggle, and Defense. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle. Self-Liberation. Self-Liberation (Chinese) 自我解放. Self-Liberation (Vietnamese) TỰ GIẢI PHÓNG. Self-Liberation (English) Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War. Social Power and Political Freedom.

THE ANTI-COUP

THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of

SELF-LIBERATION

Self-Liberation 3 For definitions of strategic terms, read: The Politics of Non- violent Action, pp. 492-495; Waging Nonviolent Struggle, pp. 444-445 and 454-461; and The Politics of Nonviolent Action, pp. 504-510. ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp. in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflict. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political. violence through the use of nonviolent action. Our goals are to understand the

dynamics.

ABOUT US – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION About Us. The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.

NONVIOLENT ACTION

Nonviolent Action. The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. But, what is nonviolent action and how can it be used to defend democratic freedoms, oppose dictatorships and other oppressors, and to reduce the institutional reliance on violence as an instrument GENE SHARP’S ACADEMIC LEGACY Gene Sharp was an historic analyst and theoretician. He can be spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., all of whom critically understood that one’s beliefs must be linked to a technique of action. Beliefs are not enough. Gene was a major progenitor for establishing the field of nonviolent civil resistance

TO DEMOCRACY

All material appearing in this publication is in the public domain Citation of the source, and notification to the Albert Einstein Institution for the reproduction, HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSNONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP how nonviolenT sTruggle works prefaCe xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai- THERE ARE REALISTIC ALTERNATIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS. C. HAPTER. O. NE. 1 Developing a Realistic Alternative to War and Other Violence The need for a means of waging conflicts 2 There is another technique of struggle 4 HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSGENE SHARP WRITTEN WORKS PREFACE xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai-me González Bernal in Spanish in Mexico and THE ANTI-COUPCOUP D ETAT CROSSWORDCOUP D ETAT PRONOUNCECOUP D ETAT DÉFINITIONCOUP D ETAT TRUMPUS COUP D ETATWHAT DOES COUP D ETAT MEAN THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of ON STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT CONFLICT APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Important Terms in 145 Nonviolent Struggle APPENDIX 2 Methods of Nonviolent Action 153 APPENDIX 3 Example of Problem Solving Using 161 Staff Study Format APPENDIX 4 Suggested Format for Preparing a 165 Strategic Estimate FIGURES FIGURE 1 Monolithic Model of Power 167 FIGURE 2 Pluralistic Model of Power 169 FIGURE 3 Pillars of Support 171 FIGURE ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp. in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflict. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political. violence through the use of nonviolent action. Our goals are to understand the

dynamics.

ABOUT US – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION About Us. The Albert Einstein Institution is a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Gene Sharp in 1983 to advance the study and use of strategic nonviolent action in conflicts throughout the world. We are committed to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through the use of nonviolent action.

NONVIOLENT ACTION

Nonviolent Action. The Albert Einstein Institution is dedicated to advancing the worldwide study and strategic use of nonviolent action in conflict. But, what is nonviolent action and how can it be used to defend democratic freedoms, oppose dictatorships and other oppressors, and to reduce the institutional reliance on violence as an instrument GENE SHARP’S ACADEMIC LEGACY Gene Sharp was an historic analyst and theoretician. He can be spoken of in the same breath as Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., all of whom critically understood that one’s beliefs must be linked to a technique of action. Beliefs are not enough. Gene was a major progenitor for establishing the field of nonviolent civil resistance

TO DEMOCRACY

All material appearing in this publication is in the public domain Citation of the source, and notification to the Albert Einstein Institution for the reproduction, HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSNONVIOLENT ACTION GROUP how nonviolenT sTruggle works prefaCe xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai- THERE ARE REALISTIC ALTERNATIVES TABLE OF CONTENTS. C. HAPTER. O. NE. 1 Developing a Realistic Alternative to War and Other Violence The need for a means of waging conflicts 2 There is another technique of struggle 4 HOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKSGENE SHARP WRITTEN WORKS PREFACE xi The present text is an extreme abridgement of the published The Politics of Nonviolent Action. The original condensation was prepared by Jai-me González Bernal in Spanish in Mexico and THE ANTI-COUPCOUP D ETAT CROSSWORDCOUP D ETAT PRONOUNCECOUP D ETAT DÉFINITIONCOUP D ETAT TRUMPUS COUP D ETATWHAT DOES COUP D ETAT MEAN THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of ON STRATEGIC NONVIOLENT CONFLICT APPENDICES APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Important Terms in 145 Nonviolent Struggle APPENDIX 2 Methods of Nonviolent Action 153 APPENDIX 3 Example of Problem Solving Using 161 Staff Study Format APPENDIX 4 Suggested Format for Preparing a 165 Strategic Estimate FIGURES FIGURE 1 Monolithic Model of Power 167 FIGURE 2 Pluralistic Model of Power 169 FIGURE 3 Pillars of Support 171 FIGURE ENGLISH – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America 1931-1961. Nonviolent Struggle and the Revolution in East Germany. Nonviolent Resistance in Lithuania. Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia. Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle. Tyranny Could Not Quell Them!

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The Monograph Series. Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America 1931-1961. Civilian-Based Defense in a new Era. Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions. Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia. Nonviolent Resistance in Lithuania. Nonviolent

Struggle and

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jamila Raqib. Jamila Raqib serves as the Executive Director of the Albert Einstein Institution and as a Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds a degree in management from Simmons College. Jamila joined the Albert Einstein Institution in 2002, focusing on the

promotion

CONTACT – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION E mail address: info@aeinstein.org . Postal address: P.O. Box 455, East Boston, MA 02128, USA 198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION 198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION. Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of “nonviolent weapons” at their disposal. Listed below are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion, noncooperation (social, economic, and political), and nonviolent intervention. WHAT IS NONVIOLENT ACTION? What is nonviolent action? Nonviolent action (also sometimes referred to as people power, political defiance, and nonviolent struggle) is a technique of action for applying power in a conflict by using symbolic protests, noncooperation, and defiance, but not

DR. GENE SHARP

Dr. Gene Sharp, who has been called “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare,” founded the Albert Einstein Institution in 1983 to promote research, policy studies, and education on the strategic uses of nonviolent struggle in face of dictatorship, war, genocide, and

oppression.

AMHARIC – ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUTION The Political Equivalent of War: Civilian-Based Defense. Power, Struggle, and Defense. The Role of Power in Nonviolent Struggle. Self-Liberation. Self-Liberation (Chinese) 自我解放. Self-Liberation (Vietnamese) TỰ GIẢI PHÓNG. Self-Liberation (English) Self-Reliant Defense without Bankruptcy or War. Social Power and Political Freedom.

THE ANTI-COUP

THE ANTI-COUP Supporters of political democracy, human rights, and social justice have good reasons to be alarmed about coups d'état. These abrupt seizures of

SELF-LIBERATION

Self-Liberation 3 For definitions of strategic terms, read: The Politics of Non- violent Action, pp. 492-495; Waging Nonviolent Struggle, pp. 444-445 and 454-461; and The Politics of Nonviolent Action, pp. 504-510. ↓ Skip to Main Content Subscribe for Albert Einstein Institution news: Albert Einstein Institution * About the Institution

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