Here are six guidelines that can help you carry out nonviolent action more safely and effectively, while drawing upon nonviolent practices from your own cultural heritage. These guidelines derive, as you’ll see, from two basic points to bear in mind:
For example, currently, 60% of Iran's student population is female, and more than 35% of young Iranian women (aged 25 to 34) have university educations, which is higher than the percentage of young women in Germany and Italy and, interestingly, 10% higher than Iranian men.
On the eve of the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Zhina Amini in the custody of the Guidance Patrol, government security agencies have employed all suppression tactics and coercive means. Every day, dozens of women, civil and trade activists, labor activists, detainees, and victims of the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, as well as activists and members of the plaintiff's families, are arrested, summoned to prisons and security centers, abducted, or made to disappear.
Almost a year has passed since the death of Zhina Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran’s government, and the nationwide protests of the Iranian people known as the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, which were violently suppressed by the Islamic Republic. More than five hundred people were killed, thousands were injured, and the implementation of heavy sentences for protesters, such as execution, shows the use of violence by the Islamic Republic in suppressing the protesting people.
A comprehensive examination of the actions and campaigns organized by the Coordinating Council of Teacher Trade Unions over these years cannot be encapsulated in this brief note. However, it is impossible to write about the initiatives of this council without mentioning the nationwide simultaneous strike of teachers on the first day of Mehr 1400 (21 September 2021).
In 1973, a political science theorist, Jane Sharp, compiled and published for the first time a comprehensive list of 198 methods for civil resistance. However, since the formation and growth of civil resistance movements fundamentally depend on the production of new methods and tactics for the struggle, it didn't take long for other lists to emerge. The "Civil Resistance Tactics" database is one of the most comprehensive lists in this regard. More than 300 tactics of civil resistance are listed in this database, which is available online for free on the website of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict". According...
Third, the market for violence is becoming stagnant. This is more evident due to the reduction of government support to armed groups, which largely subsided with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
writer: Erica ChenowethA common misconception is that nonviolent resistance is only possible in a few situations: 1. When the opponent is very weak, or powerless to prevent or defeat the movement; 2. When the campaign explicitly advocates for reforms; and 3. When the campaign proposes an open and free political system. But this assumption is incorrect. Civil resistance campaigns have been effective against both weak and strong opponents. Civil resistance campaigns have been successful in achieving reformist and radical demands, even in highly closed political environments where any clear display of opposition seemed nearly impossible. In fact, the effectiveness of a nonviolent...
Many manifestations of modern human life changed after the age of enlightenment in Europe, according to anthropocentrism and subjectivism. As a natural result of the renaissance and with the weakening of "essentialism", concepts such as "autocracy of the state" and "the divine right of the kingdom" were questioned in the field of politics, and new approaches to the why and how of governments emerged. In modern societies, all people are considered citizens and instead of being "obligatory", they are now "entitled".
Writer: Erica Chenoweth The first answer is that more people around the world are likely to accept the view that nonviolent resistance is a legitimate and successful way to effect change. Second, information technology has made it easier for people to access information about events that were previously unreported or suppressed. The elite can no longer control information as easily as in previous eras, which suggests that it may be easier to find news and information about ordinary people today. Third, the market for violence is becoming stagnant. This is even more evident given the decline in state support for...
