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The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict is an independent, non-profit, educational foundation that develops and encourages the study and use of civilian-based, nonmilitary strategies to establish and defend human rights, democracy and justice worldwide.
Academic Webinar Series
ICNC is pleased to announce the launch of our Academic Webinar Series - live lectures and discussions on topics related to nonviolent conflict and civil resistance that are available to you online or over the phone.

Our first webinar will be on Thursday, February 4th, 12pm - 1pm EST. Jack DuVall, President of ICNC and co-author of the book A Force More Powerful will present, "The Core Dynamics of Civil Resistance."
Fletcher Summer Institute 2010
ICNC is now accepting applications for the 2010 Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict at Tufts University. This week-long Institute, now in its fifth year, will run from June 20 - 26 and brings together international professionals and journalists from around the world to learn from top practitioners and scholars about strategic concepts and present applications of civil resistance.
NOW AVAILABLE
A force more powerful: The game of nonviolent strategy
The first and only interactive teaching tool using nonviolent tactics to overcome oppression.
ICNC News
Tuesday, December 9, 2008: ICNC releases its new, updated News Digest on Nonviolent Conflict. To receive the bi-weekly News Digest by email click here.
Podcast
Hear Jack DuVall give a power-point presentation entitled, "The 'Wine of Violence' and the Market for Militant Struggle: How Civil Resistance Can Displace Violence and Terror," at a seminar of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, at King's College, London, on September, 10, 2008. Listen here.
Recent Events
ICNC convenes panel at the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference on "Fragmented Tyrannies: The Nexus of Corruption and Extreme Violence": Info here. Read rapporteur's report. (PDF)

Egypt's "Facebook Revolution" featured in panel on "Using Social Media in the Fight Against Corruption". Read here.
New Articles
Shaazka Beyerle, Vanessa Ortiz and Stephen Zunes blog for openDemocracy.net at the 13th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Athens, Greece. Read here.

Election Victories: The Power of People, the Strength of Nonviolent Action -- The 30-year dictatorship that choked the Maldives is finally over, and it was the citizens' long nonviolent struggle that led to democratic change. Vanessa Ortiz publishes an article on the recent nonviolent movement in the Maldives in the Global Campaign for Peace Education newsletter,
November - December 2008. Read here.

Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict - Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth's in-depth study on why civil resistance works in International Security, volume 33, issue 1, pages 7-44. Read here. (PDF)

For the Record
ICNC has responded to a series of fabrications and false statements about its activities, by the writer Stephen Gowans in an article entitled, "The US attempted color revolution in Iran: The role and aims of US democracy promotion in the attempted color revolution in Iran."
Click here to read the response.
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