What Was the Impact of the Otpor Campaign?

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Serbian organization called otpor became famous for using humor and theatric in their anti melosovitch protests. One such campaign was called a dinar for change. People who passed by could pay a small amount of money to then hit the painting with a bat. It's sort of this humiliating and absurd political theatre, but it's now used in a much more widespread way.

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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