Erica Chenoweth: The future of nonviolent resistance
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Erica Chenoweth, professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will give a short lecture on The future of nonviolent resistance.
Civil resistance has had a remarkable history over the past century, leading to the remarkable expansion of civil, political, and human rights and even to revolutionary transformations of oppressive systems. Sometimes called nonviolent resistance, unarmed struggle, or nonviolent action, this form of political action is now a mainstay across the globe. But just as civil resistance has become an overwhelmingly popular form of popular struggle, it has also begun to decline in its effectiveness over the past decade. Chenoweth discusses the primary explanations for this paradox. In doing so, she draws upon historical and contemporary cases such as the Eastern European revolutions, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Awakenings, and various ongoing movements in the United States and beyond.
Erica Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, where they study political violence and its alternatives. Foreign Policy magazine ranked Chenoweth among the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2013 for their efforts to promote the empirical study of nonviolent resistance.
The CORE Lecture Series is organised by the CORE research group (Citizens, Opinion, Representation, and Elections) at the Department of Comparative Politics. Leading international scholars are invited to present their ongoing research on a broad range of topical issues for the research group.
The seminars are funded by the SAMEVAL grant awarded by the Norwegian Research Council.
The seminar will be held on Zoom and is open to all.
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