En avril 2018, un groupe de manifestants, y compris des personnes âgées, ont été agressés par des forces de choc adeptes du gouvernement nicaraguayen. Il s’agissait de civils armés avec la liberté de ...

The revolutionaries said that violence had the role of midwife in historical development, that the traumas of social upheaval were like birth pains. In Nicaragua, as in other latitudes, revolutions, w...

The Ugandan state branded it a ‘common nuisance,’ but this nude protest, echoing the 1929 Nigerian Women’s War, wielded cultural defiance to expose forty years of authoritarianism under Yoweri Museven...

Welcome to the official online application form for the ICNC online course Movements and Power: Civil Resistance in the 21st Century (Fall 2025).   ICNC's online course will now take place from Novemb...

With a median age of just 16.9 years, Uganda’s population is only second to Niger as the youngest in the world. Despite this enormous demographic advantage, Uganda’s youths have mostly been absent fro...

Read this article in English here. Soixante ans après les indépendances, les sociétés africaines sont toujours marquées par les pesanteurs de la colonisation et des dictatures qui ont suivi. La vague ...

Lisez cet article en français ici. Sixty years after independence, African societies are still marked by the burdens of colonization and the dictatorships that followed. The wave of independence in Af...

During a three-year judicial training in Poland, I was taught how to deal with different cases as a judge. I had to pass a very difficult judicial exam knowing all Supreme Court case law in criminal a...

In ongoing tension, Balochistan province in Pakistan witnessed the deadliest attacks in the first quarter of 2025. The hijacking of the Jaffar Express train by the Balochistan Liberation Army caught e...

Civil resistance is a powerful way for people to fight for their rights, freedom, and justice—without the use of violence. When a movement...

You may also be interested in: CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent StruggleThe content of the curriculum is divided into three parts: I. Theory and its applications: The goal of th...

In the spring of 2013, Turkish police made a public announcement at a metro station in Ankara warning passengers to “act in accordance with moral rules” after having spotted a couple engaging in a pub...

Watch ICNC's five critically acclaimed documentary films on civil resistance -- free to stream -- in English and over 20 other languages.

ICNC is pleased to announce its new partnership with the Institut pour la Paix (Institute for Peace, France)! The Institut Pour la Paix (IPP) is an organization whose aim is the introduction and promo...

Read this article in English here. Cet article fait partie d’une REACT mini-série REACT intitulée, “La violence en ligne et hors ligne : La nommer, la défier, la dépasser”. Lisez le deuxième article i...

Lire cet article en français ici. This article is part of a REACT mini-series entitled, “Violence On and Offline: Naming It, Defying It, Surpassing It”. Read our second post here. As the recent tensio...

Read this article in English here. Cet article fait partie d’une mini-série REACT intitulée “La violence en ligne et hors ligne : La nommer, la défier, la dépasser”. Lisez notre deuxième article ici. ...

Lire cet article en français ici. This article is part of a REACT mini-series entitled, “Violence On and Offline: Naming It, Defying It, Surpassing It”. Read our second post here.   While armed confli...

During a three-year judicial training in Poland, I was taught how to deal with different cases as a judge. I had to pass a very difficult judicial exam knowing all Supreme Court case law in criminal a...

You may also be interested in: CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent StruggleThe content of the curriculum is divided into three parts: I. Theory and its applications: The goal of th...

In the spring of 2013, Turkish police made a public announcement at a metro station in Ankara warning passengers to “act in accordance with moral rules” after having spotted a couple engaging in a pub...

Je suis assise devant mon ordinateur, près de la fenêtre, dans mon bureau. Les piaillements des oiseaux et les pétarades d’une moto ne suffisent pas à couvrir les rafales d’armes lourdes toutes proche...

Proud of our president Hardy Merriman's contributions to the People Power Conference here in Copenhagen.

Strong showing at this session with ICNC Senior Advisor Amber French here in Copenhagen! Check out our REACT Research-in-Action blog series to discover our growing community of activist-writers and ac...

Can we have any hope in nonviolent strategies working? Peace, democracy and human rights do not exist thanks to war; where they persist today, it is in spite of war. Instead, it is thanks to nonvi...

Combattre ou fuir : le faux dilemme. Comment l'action non violente est une force efficace pour défendre la démocratie, la justice et la paix. Cette formation révèle l'un des secrets les mieux gardés d...

You may also be interested in: CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent StruggleThe content of the curriculum is divided into three parts: I. Theory and its applications: The goal of th...

Introduction to Civil Resistance : A First Look

How has writing changed my life? I had a very unconventional upbringing. I was born in 1974 in South Africa during the Apartheid era. At the time my mother was a domestic worker for a white Jewish fam...

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Civil resistance is a powerful way for people to fight for their rights, freedom, and justice—without the use of violence. When a movement...

Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs in key states; by building financial, legal, and electoral st...