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Blog: CALL FOR CASES/INFORMATION: Research project on citizen participation & NV civic action to fight corruption seeks input

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Posted December 22nd, 2009 by shaazka

I am conducting an in-depth research project to document and study cases of citizen participation and nonviolent civic action to fight corruption, in order to distill general lessons learned and best practices. The focus is on what people--organized together, exerting their collective power--are doing to fight corruption as they themselves have discerned it. The project will examine the skills, strategies, objectives, and demands of nonviolent civic campaigns and movements, rather than the phenomenon of corruption itself, or the conditions under which it occurs.

Blog: Civil resistance runs on people power: How to shift allegiances

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Posted December 13th, 2009 by Philippe Duhamel

Now you do itPowerful opponents seem to have everything: money, guns, supplies, the army and police, institutions and prisons. How can simple citizens, with scarce resources and unarmed, succeed against opponents wielding deadly weapons? “Look at us,” you say, “we are no match.”

Find out about how nonviolent struggle can achieve victory, in large part by shifting alliegeances among three main groups of people.

Blog: So what exactly is civil resistance?

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Posted December 3rd, 2009 by Philippe Duhamel

graphWe offered a practical definition of nonviolent struggle earlier in this series. We now turn to "civil resistance", a term often used as a synonym of nonviolent action. Is there a difference between the two? Why use one over the other? Drawing from a new release on the subject, find out what the rationale is for using "civil resistance" as a term that covers most of the ground associated with nonviolent action, without some of its unwanted aura of ascetic faith or doctrine.