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DESCRIPTION:"The Role of Strategic Nonviolent Action in Global Democratizat
 ion." Despite periodic\nsetbacks and occasional reversals\, the past three
  decades have witnessed a\nremarkable wave of democratization worldwide. I
 n the majority of cases\, the\nlarge-scale use of strategic nonviolent act
 ion by opposition activists played\nthe critical role in bringing down aut
 ocratic systems. These movements came\nabout not as a result of a spiritua
 l or ethical commitment to nonviolence as much\nas the realization that ne
 ither working within the political system nor armed\nstruggle were viable 
 options. This lecture examines the history and dynamics of\ncivil resistan
 ce and why it has proven to be such a powerful tool in\npro-democracy stru
 ggles.
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SUMMARY:PARCC presents: Stephen Zunes
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p></p><p>"The Role of Strategic Nonvio
 lent Action in Global Democratization." Despite periodic\nsetbacks and occ
 asional reversals\, the past three decades have witnessed a\nremarkable wa
 ve of democratization worldwide. In the majority of cases\, the\nlarge-sca
 le use of strategic nonviolent action by opposition activists played\nthe 
 critical role in bringing down autocratic systems. These movements came\na
 bout not as a result of a spiritual or ethical commitment to nonviolence a
 s much\nas the realization that neither working within the political syste
 m nor armed\nstruggle were viable options. This lecture examines the histo
 ry and dynamics of\ncivil resistance and why it has proven to be such a po
 werful tool in\npro-democracy struggles.</p><p></p><p></p>
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