"Can nonviolent civil resistance be successful even against the most militarily
sophisticated and brutal regimes? My podcast guest this month, political
scientist Maria Stephan, says unequivocally 'yes.' Co-Lead and Chief Organizer
at The Horizons Project and the former Director of the Program on Nonviolent
Action at the United States Institute of Peace, Maria is the co-author, with
Erica Chenoweth, of the award-winning book, Why Civil Resistance Works: The
Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. The result of two years of research --
collecting and analyzing data on over 330 major, violent and nonviolent
campaigns -- the book makes the case for a surprising conclusion: nonviolent
campaigns were actually twice as effective as violent ones in achieving their
political goals."
Kern Beare is the founder of the Difficult Conversations Project. In his
conversation with Maria Stephan, they delve how the tools and strategies of
nonviolent action can be used to counter the authoritarian tendencies
prevalent in our world today.
