WHAT IS NONVIOLENT CONFLICT?

Nonviolent conflict is a powerful way for people to fight for their rights, freedom, justice, self-determination, and accountable government.

When people wage nonviolent conflict, they withdraw their cooperation from an oppressive system by using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, and mass protests. These actions can disrupt the capacity of rulers to control events and can shift the support and loyalties of the system’s defenders to the side of the movement. Decisive, even historic, change has then often been the outcome.

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