The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDx Boulder

Between 19002006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent campaigns. Erica will talk about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discuss the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st century. She will focus on the socalled rule the notion that no government can withstand a challenge of 3. 5 of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. In addition to explaini