Antiwar/Solidarity Activism on Gaza: New Generation, New Challenges admin, May 14, 2024August 8, 2024 Project on Middle East Political Science April 2024. [source] Continue Reading
TV Interviews: Police Attack & Clear Student Anti-War, Pro-Divestment Camp at UCLA admin, May 13, 2024August 21, 2024 Al Jazeera English Television, May 2, 2024 Anti-war, pro-divestment demonstrations on many campuses Police attacks on student protesters at UCLA Continue Reading
Profile of Dr. Stephen Zunes in Swedish Press admin, May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 Gothenberg University Magazine May 2024 (Sweden; in English): Profile on Dr. Zunes’ visiting research fellowship at University of Gothenburg, pages 20-21 Continue Reading
Middle East Crisis Webinar admin, February 15, 2024May 14, 2024 Middle East Crisis Webinar with Dr. Stephen Zunes,Steve Chase and Michael Beer Dec. 6, 2023 (Audio) Continue Reading
Movement for a New Society Reunion: International Training and Nonviolent Revolution admin, November 14, 2021May 20, 2024 VIDEO of panel with 4 other activist presenters: “Nonviolence, Peace & Transnational Part 2“ and Dr. Zunes’ PowerPoint of Photos from Sudan. Continue Reading
Sudan’s 2019 Revolution The Power of Civil Resistance admin, April 28, 2021April 3, 2024 Stephen Zunes’ April 2021 report* reviews the chronology of the resistance struggle in Sudan, the critical role of nonviolent discipline, other factors contributing to the movement’s success, and the current political situation. It seeks to explain how the movement was able to succeed despite enormous odds against it and what… Continue Reading
Nonviolent Activists Laid the Groundwork to Oppose a Coup. They May Have Saved the Republic admin, January 20, 2021August 14, 2024 Activists prepared for months, expecting Trump to steal the election. They were right, and he failed. Since President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive win in November, there has been understandable consternation at the efforts by President Trump and his supporters to steal the election. It is also important to understand why, so far, and despite the recent violence in Washington, his attempts have been unsuccessful. Continue Reading
When a Ceasefire is Not Enough admin, January 1, 2021August 14, 2024 THE WAR BETWEEN Armenia and Azerbaijan this past autumn was an avoidable tragedy. The disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region has been populated since at least the second century B.C.E. by Armenians, one of the world’s oldest Christian civilizations. The Muslim Azeris and others have lived there and in neighboring areas for centuries as well, and the region was ethnically mixed (albeit majority Armenian) when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Continue Reading
Is the U.S. Prepared to Resist a Coup? admin, October 26, 2020August 14, 2024 President Donald Trump’s refusal to agree to a peaceful transfer of power has raised concerns that the Republicans may try to steal the 2020 Presidential Election. If Trump and his Republican allies attempt to invalidate the election results, would enough Americans be able to mobilize to stop it? Continue Reading
Resisting Stolen Elections: Lessons from the Philippines, Serbia, Ukraine, and Gambia admin, October 23, 2020August 14, 2024 Discussion has grown for months about how the upcoming U.S. election results could be contested and possibly subverted. No one knows for certain what will happen, but there are precedents we can learn from about how attempts to overturn election results have been stopped. Continue Reading
VIDEO: Democracy Defense: Advice from Activists Around the World admin, October 20, 2020March 18, 2024 Nonviolence International, Beautiful Trouble, BlackOUT Collective, and OR Books present a webinar on: “Democracy Defense: Advice from Activists Around the World.” Continue Reading
INTERVIEW: 2020 Election, Nonviolent Action, and More admin, October 3, 2020May 22, 2024 LINK: https://www.facebook.com/joel.tyner/videos/10160419403615744/ Continue Reading
Sudan’s Democratic Revolution: How They Did It admin, February 26, 2020August 14, 2024 Conditions under Sudan’s oppressive autocratic regime did not fit into what Western analysts see as the right ones for a successful pro-democracy civil resistance movement and yet they have emerged victorious—at least for now. Among other things, its success points to perhaps the single most important factor: nonviolent discipline. Continue Reading
How Sudan’s Pro-Democracy Uprising Challenges Prevailing Myths about Civil Resistance admin, April 22, 2019August 14, 2024 A powerful pro-democracy civil insurrection in Sudan which has ousted a longstanding dictator and his successor is still in progress, but Sudanese are hopeful for a full democratic transition. Continue Reading
Trump’s Controversial Decision on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards admin, April 17, 2019August 14, 2024 There is little question that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is bad news. Some of its units have engaged in severe repression of nonviolent dissidents, supported Assad’s brutal counter-insurgency operations in Syria, backed hardline Islamist militia in several foreign countries, and more. Continue Reading
INTERVIEW: Why Sudan’s Dictator Fell and What Comes Next? admin, April 12, 2019August 14, 2024 LINK: https://www.risingupwithsonali.com/2019/04/12/why-sudans-dictator-fell-and-what-comes-next/ DOWNLOAD AUDIO (MP3): https://ia601505.us.archive.org/27/items/20190412StephenZunes/2019_04_12_Stephen_Zunes.mp3 Continue Reading
The Power of Nonviolent Action in Conflict Zones admin, October 25, 2018August 14, 2024 Item from American Friends of Combatants for Peace is no longer available. Find best related links. Continue Reading
The Role of Civil Resistance in Bolivia’s 1977-1982 Pro-Democracy Struggle admin, June 30, 2018August 14, 2024 July 2018 Middle Atlantic Review of Latin American Studies II(1); also from the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and at Research Gate: Despite being the poorest and least developed country in South America, Bolivia was the first to emerge from the period of military dictatorships that dominated the continent from… Continue Reading
Civil Resistance Against Coups: A Comparative and Historical Perspective admin, April 24, 2018August 14, 2024 International Center on Nonviolent Conflict 2017: This monograph presents in-depth case studies and analysis intended to improve our understanding of the strategic utility of civil resistance against military takeovers; the nature of civil resistance mobilization against coups; and the role of civil resistance against coups. Continue Reading
Remembering Martin Luther King, the Radical for Peace admin, April 3, 2018August 14, 2024 The Progressive April 3, 2018: King challenged the draining of our national resources for the military, opposed the Vietnam War and other aspects of U.S. foreign policy and questioned an economic system that created enormous poverty amid great wealth. He was assassinated while organizing the Poor People’s March… Continue Reading