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- Only Young Once: An Introduction to Nonviolent Struggle for Youths
- How Freedom is Won: From Civic Resistance to Durable Democracy
- Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America: 1931–1961
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- Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
- Gandhi as a Political Strategist
- \"Bite Not One Another\": Selected Accounts of Nonviolent Struggle in Africa
- Resistance, Politics, and the American Struggle for Independence, 1765-1775
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- A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance
- Map and Timeline of Selected Cases of Civil Resistance Since 1945
- A Battlefield Transformed: From Guerilla Resistance to Mass Nonviolent Struggle in the Western Sahara
- Bringing Down a Dictator
- Unarmed Against Hitler: Civilian Resistance in Europe, 1939-1943
- People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity
- Fighting for Statehood: The Role of Civilian-Based Resistance in the East Timorese, Palestinian, and Kosovo Albanian Self-Determination Movements
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- Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action
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- Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany
- Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential
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- The Politics of Nonviolent Action (3 volumes)
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- Nonviolent Action in the Liberation of Latvia
- Gandhi Wields the Weapon of Moral Power (Three Case Histories)
- Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine’s Democratic Breakthrough
- Civil Resistance in the East European and Soviet Revolutions
- Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies
- From Comrades to Citizens: The South African Civics Movement and the Transition to Democracy
- Insurrectionary Civic Strikes in Latin America: 1931–1961
- Arab Nonviolent Political Struggle in the Middle East
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- WEBINAR - "Nonviolent Strategy, Tactics, and Collective Identity"
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- "Orange Revolution" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
- "More than Peace Signs and Flowers: The Nonviolence Movement in the 21st Century"
- WEBINAR - "When Repression Backfires"
- WEBINAR - "The Core Dynamics of Civil Resistance"
- "Lessons of the Solidarity Movement for Cuba" conference
- The 19th Annual Conference of Concerned Philosophers for Peace
- State University of New York--Brockport
- "Nonviolence in the Age of Terrorism: In Gandhi's Footsteps" conference
- "Civic Power and the People's Rights: Nonviolent Action for a New World"
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- Democracy Support Workshop organized by the Community of Democracies
- Third Session of the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)
- European Development Days
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- Collegium Civitas Academic Workshop
- International Studies Association (ISA)/Brazilian Association of International Relations (ABRI) Joint International Meeting
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- Fletcher Summer Institute 2009
- National Seminar: Learning about Nonviolent Conflict
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- Stanford Summer Program on Democracy and Development (2007)
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- Introductory Course on Media and Security Sector Oversight
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- 13th Annual International Anti-Corruption conference
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- International Institute on Peace Education conference
- Stanford Summer Program on Democracy and Development (2008)
- International Peace Research Association conference
- The 3rd World Forum on Human Rights
- CIVICUS World Assembly (2008)
- "Orange Revolution" film screening and panel discussion
- International Summit on Conflict Resolution Education
- International Studies Association (ISA) conference
- Herzliya Conference
- Second Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption
- Conference on Civil Resistance and Power Politics
- Digital Conflict in 2009: Fighting Online Radicalization and Rechanneling Militancy
- 2nd Biennial Global Nonviolence International Conference
- Oberlin College
- First International Conference on Radicalisation and Political Violence
- American Political Science Association (APSA) conference 2006
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) conference
- Swarthmore College
- "Orange Revolution" film screening and panel discussion
- United States Institute of Peace (USIP)/ICNC Professional Level Course
- Organización Negra Centroamericana (ONECA) Conference
- Fletcher Summer Institute 2008
- International Peace Research Association biennial conference
- Games for Change annual conference
- CIVICUS World Assembly (2006)
- People Power and Pedagogy: A Workshop for Educators
- Salon Internationale des Initiatives de Paix
- California Institute of Technology
- Columbia University Teachers College
- Third International Gathering for the Culture of Peace (2006)
- Fundacion Para Las Relaciones Internacionales y el Dialogo Exterior
- International Studies Association conference
- The Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
- Michigan State University
- Lawrence University
- Society for Military and Strategic Studies Conference on War and Security: From Conflict to Resolution
- Celebrating Nonviolent Resistance conference
- First Global International Studies Association conference
- Sparta United Methodist Church
- "Nonviolence and Social Change" Summer Institute for K-12 Educators
- The 11th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
- Film Screening at Macalester College
- Screening of excerpts of "A Force More Powerful" and "Bringing Down a Dictator"
- The Error in "Terrorism": Political Violence and the Media
- Film Screening at Rice University
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with an open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
- Swarthmore College: "The Role of the US Abroad" panel discussion
- Screening of "A Force More Powerful: Chile" followed by Q&A led by Kim Hedge
- New Tactics in Human Rights International Symposium
- Jack DuVall appearance on behalf of Paul Loeb's book "The Impossible Will Take a Little While"
- Kansas State University
- Jack DuVall appears with Paul Loeb for the book "The Impossible Will Take a Little While"
- Islam and the Middle East Teachers conference
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
- Secretary's Open Forum
- Screening of "A Force More Powerful" with open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
- National Press Club "Newsmaker" conference
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open forum discussion led by Jack DuVall
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", with open discussion led by Shaazka Beyerle
- "Strategic Nonviolent Conflict" symposium
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", followed by a panel discussion with Jack DuVall
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", followed by a panel discussion with Jack DuVall
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator," speaker Jack DuVall
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator," speaker Jack DuVall
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator," speaker Jack DuVall
- World Electronic Media Forum
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", followed by discussion with Jack DuVall
- Peace and Justice Studies Association annual conference: "Fostering Alternatives to Violence"
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator" followed by remarks by Jack DuVall
- Princeton University
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator" followed by remarks by Jack DuVall
- Bluffton College
- State University of New York--Stony Brook
- Lester B. Pearson College
- Screening of "Bringing Down a Dictator", followed by remarks by Jack DuVall
- Canadian premiere screening and discussion of "Bringing Down a Dictator"
- Prospects for Democracy in Iraq forum
- Advance screening and discussion of "Bringing Down a Dictator"
- United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
- Kent State University
- Screening of "A Force More Powerful", followed by a panel discussion
- Reading from "A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict" and diiscussion with Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall
- Fletcher Summer Institute 2006
- Negotiation: The Hidden Dimension of the Nonviolent Struggles of Our Era
- Interfaith Council Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
- Fletcher Summer Institute 2007
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