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Nonviolent Paths to Social Change
March 2009
The past 30 years have seen a surge of nonviolent, “people power” movements around the world advancing human rights and toppling repressive rulers. This edition of eJournal USA demonstrates that nonviolent actions can be more powerful than armed insurrections in bringing about social change.
Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco Armed insurgencies impose great human costs. Nonviolent “people power” movements succeed by calling attention to official repression and winning support from the undecided.
Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder Rooted in 16th-century Europe, the intellectual traditions of nonviolent thought and action developed in the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries and traveled abroad to Asia and Africa.
Established democracies have some of the world’s most dynamic, innovative and productive economies, but questions remain about whether poor or transitioning democracies will be able achieve sustained economic growth and which policies their governments need to pursue to realize that growth.
Kathy Partridge, Executive Director, Interfaith Funders Millions of U.S. citizens have used community organizers to teach them how to press governments to do the right thing. Warfare is not part of the natural condition of man. Civilization promotes less violent ways of effecting change.
David Talbot, Chief Correspondent, Technology Review The 2008 election victory of Barack Obama showed that Web-based tools for donating money and efficiently harnessing the efforts of large numbers of volunteers can be extraordinarily powerful.
Clay Shirky, Professor, New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program Simple new telecommunications tools are removing obstacles to collective action by ordinary people, and thus changing the world.
John Horgan, Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology Warfare is not part of the natural condition of man. Civilization promotes less violent ways of effecting change.
David P. Barash, Professor of Psychology, University of Washington Game theory suggests that, although it is not at all simple to accomplish, cooperation can often be shown to be preferable to conflict.
Seven Changing the World
There is no single formula for implementing meaningful social change in a world of such daunting complexity and diversity. Writer Howard Cincotta here describes seven individuals who demonstrate how such change can be accomplished.