Non violent campaigns twice as likely to have succeeded as their violent counterparts. Rates of success for non violent campaigns had actually increased over the latter half of the twentieth century and into the beginning of the 20 first so in other words, non violent resistance was working much more than sceptics like myself would have expected. We found basically that about around half of the cases that we studied had succeeded,. About 25 % of the cases of armed resistance had succeeded.
Does power truly flow from the barrel of a gun? Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true? Political scientist Erica Chenoweth, who has studied more than 100 years of revolutions and insurrections, says the answer is counterintuitive.
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