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[https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051421-124128 by ANNUAL REVIEWS 2023] | [https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-051421-124128 by ANNUAL REVIEWS 2023] | ||
Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people mobilize collective protests, strikes, and boycotts in a coordinated way. Mass movements that rely overwhelmingly on nonviolent resistance sometimes feature unarmed collective violence, fringe violence, or even organized armed action. | Over the past two decades, there has been growing scholarly interest in nonviolent resistance—a method of conflict in which unarmed people mobilize collective protests, strikes, and boycotts in a coordinated way. Mass movements that rely overwhelmingly on nonviolent resistance sometimes feature unarmed collective violence, fringe violence, or even organized armed action. | ||
=====Techniques and Outcomes===== | |||
[https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/ig/features/0607_01/slide4.html by THE TEXAS POLITICS PROJECT] | |||
Blockades, tree-sitting, boycotts, sit-ins, not paying your taxes, and deliberately disobeying a specific law perceived to be unjust--these are some of the many ways citizens use non-violent civil disobedience to promote political change. Very often these tactics are illegal, putting the individuals carrying out these actions at personal risk of arrest, fines, jail, and even civil damage awards. | |||
