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How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy
Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings
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Civil resistance is one of the most powerful forces for moving countries from dictatorship to democracy. Yet many civil resistance campaigns, even when they achieve a breakthrough against their authoritarian opponents, fail to result in high-quality new democratic regimes. I argue that one key factor influencing this is the mechanism through whi

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Release dateMay 15, 2018
How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy
Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings

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  • Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings

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    Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings
    Nonviolent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings

    What drives governments to crack down on and kill their own civilians? And how—and to what extent—has nonviolent resistance historically mitigated the likelihood of mass killings? This special report explores the factors associated with mass killings: when governments intentionally kill 1,000 or more civilian noncombatants. We find t

  • How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy

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    How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy
    How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy

    Civil resistance is one of the most powerful forces for moving countries from dictatorship to democracy. Yet many civil resistance campaigns, even when they achieve a breakthrough against their authoritarian opponents, fail to result in high-quality new democratic regimes. I argue that one key factor influencing this is the mechanism through whi

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Jonathan Pinckney

Jonathan Pinckney is a Program Officer with the Program on Nonviolent Action at the United States Institute of Peace, where he conducts research on nonviolent action, peacebuilding, and democratization. He is the author of the book "From Dissent to Democracy: The Promise and Peril of Civil Resistance Transitions," from Oxford University Press, as well as a wide range of academic and general audience publications. He received his PhD in 2018 from the University of Denver. He was a 2012 recipient of the Sie Cheou-Kang Fellowship at the University of Denver, and a 2016 recipient of an ICNC PhD Fellowship. The opinions in this piece are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the United States Institute of Peace.

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