Workers marched in Nairobi on Monday. As in much of the developing world, they are becoming a potent political force, with former agricultural laborers moving to sprawling cities for jobs in manufacturing and in service industries. Thousands of workers marched toward the presidential palace in Jakarta to demand that the government raise minimum...

After Turkey’s constitutional referendum, it is increasingly apparent that its government has exhibited similar authoritarian tendencies to Egypt since the Gezi Park protests in 2013. However, it was undoubtedly following the bombing of parliament and the deployment of troops against civilians in the night of July 15, 2016 that this...

The first-ever March for Science, which was timed to coincide with Earth Day, was aimed at promoting action to protect the environment. Many were protesting against what they consider to be an "alarming trend" among politicians for discrediting their research. At the demonstration in Washington DC, Dr. Jonathan Foley, the executive director of...

Nicholas Kristof, an Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, speaks with Gene Sharp, Jamila Raqib and Sam Daley-Harris – leading experts in civil resistance – on the most effective ways to resist the Trump administration’s agenda. Kristof also offers his own lessons on “patriotic resistance,” encouraging advocates to skip the lofty rhetoric and...

Over the past few weeks, many social scientists have mobilized alongside their compatriots to resist the Trump administration’s policies. However, many of these scholars have little formal training in engaged scholarship – the practice of doing scholarly work that matters for the real world and actively getting it out there. Chenoweth provides...

Civil society organizations have been subject to considerable criticism and doubt over the past ten years. They argue that Western-style NGOs are looking increasingly ineffective, tired, and out of touch—artificial creations often nourished by foreign supporters that lack real domestic constituencies and the ability to sustain themselves...

“A key lesson here is that engaging in nonviolent struggle is both an art and a science. What I’m talking about here is the science part—general knowledge and principles that we have seen work everywhere. We look at civil resistance as a social science, but we also don’t think there is any formula. I can share with other people what I know,...

Women around the world participated in demonstrations for International Women’s Day. In Tbilisi, Georgia, demonstrators held a large pane of glass during a performance meant to symbolize the glass ceiling. Activists in Diyarbakir, Turkey, and Warsaw, Poland, used flowers to promote their rallies and marches. In Sanaa, Yemen, women protested the...

Now in his 89th year, Gene Sharp has been repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The theorist of nonviolent resistance has been called the “Machiavelli of nonviolence” and the “Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare.” People in places as disparate as Serbia, Ukraine, Burma, and Egypt have cited Sharp’s importance. Sharp’s achievement has...

Under what circumstances is it possible to call for and encourage US federal civil servants to defy a democratically elected US president and engage in nonviolent resistance against a policy agenda with which they disagree? Among the 11 principles of ethical resistance by civil servants which can be gleaned from a number of existing guides are...