Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
Why Civil Resistance Works the book that 2x figure comes from has some major controversy about cherry picking data as well as playing with the definition of peaceful protest.
If peaceful protests worked (as good as this article suggestions) the BBC wouldn’t be writing about them.
Why Civil Resistance Works the book that 2x figure comes from has some major controversy about cherry picking data as well as playing with the definition of peaceful protest.
If peaceful protests worked (as good as this article suggestions) the BBC wouldn’t be writing about them.
Peaceful protest works great under two conditions:
Just a metric fuckton of participants
The implicit threat of violent protest (e.g. Malcom X behind MLK)
Meaning they aren’t somehow making money off whatever you’re protesting…
The article pointedly says that non violent protests were more successful because a lot more people were involved than in the violent protests.