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[https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-nonviolent-resistance-2/ by JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY 7/20] | [https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/the-future-of-nonviolent-resistance-2/ by JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY 7/20] | ||
Over the past fifty years, nonviolent civil resistance has overtaken armed struggle as the most common form of mobilization used by revolutionary movements. Yet even as civil resistance reached a new peak of popularity during the 2010s, its effectiveness had begun to decline—even before the covid-19 pandemic brought mass demonstrations to a temporary halt in early 2020. | Over the past fifty years, nonviolent civil resistance has overtaken armed struggle as the most common form of mobilization used by revolutionary movements. Yet even as civil resistance reached a new peak of popularity during the 2010s, its effectiveness had begun to decline—even before the covid-19 pandemic brought mass demonstrations to a temporary halt in early 2020. | ||
=====Glossary of Nonviolence===== | |||
[https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/glossary-of-nonviolence/ by THE KING CENTER] | |||
Overflowing unconditional love for all, including adversaries, needed for nonviolent conflict-resolution. Dr. King called it “love in action…love seeking to preserve and create community…love which is purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless and creative.” | |||
