The Intuition of Violence

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I think there are a lot of people that would make a similar assumption, that when violence failed, it was more a question of capacity. We see movies in books which are all about the use of violence and war that that basically achieve people's ends. And i guess i grew up with ta sense that war was awful, but necessary sometimes. Or it was, you know, something that was inevitable because of the nature of humanitya.

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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