Non Violent Resistance - How Does Violence Affect Support?

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Sill we've talked about a couple of movements that successfully utilized non techniques to enact change. I want to look at an example of a largely non violent movement that sometimes dabbled in violence. Can you tell me what happened in the course of these protests that caused some of them to turn violent, and the effects of this turn on public opinion?

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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