Erica Shanker: There's a reluctance to grapple with non violent history. She says there are myths about what non violent resistance is. Aricacenwith: Non violence has helped shape the world we live in right now. Shanker: We're inheritors of this heritage, but don't know it.
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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