Erica Chenoweth | International Relations, Political Violence, and Civil Resistance

Entre les révolutions violentes et non violentes, qui gagne ? - Psychology Today
▻http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-murder-and-the-meaning-life/201404/violent-versus-nonviolent-revolutions-which-way-wins

Au cours de sa formation de politologue, comme tant d’autres, la chercheuse Erica Chenoweth - ►http://www.ericachenoweth.com (blog : ►http://rationalinsurgent.com ) - a appris que l’outil le plus efficace pour atteindre ses objectifs en #politique était la violence. Dans le cadre d’un atelier sur les origines de la violence qui se tenait à l’université d’Etat de l’Arizona, elle a pourtant démontré le contraire. En étudiant plusieurs centaines de manifestations politiques depuis 1900, elle a montré que les campagnes non-violentes avaient un taux de réussite de 53%, alors que les campagnes violentes ne parvenaient à leur fin que 23% du temps. Dans son livre « Pourquoi la résistance civile marche » elle explique que les campagnes non violentes attirent plus de participants, que la répression d’un (...)

#démocratie

Civil Resistance and the “3.5% Rule”, by Erica Chenoweth
▻http://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule

for (...) two years, I collected data on all major nonviolent and violent campaigns for the overthrow of a government or territorial liberation since 1900. The data cover the entire world and include every known campaign that consists of at least a thousand observed participants, which constitutes hundreds of cases.

Then I analyzed the data, and the results blew me away. From 1900 to 2006, nonviolent campaigns worldwide were twice as likely to succeed outright as violent insurgencies. And there’s more. This trend has been increasing over time—in the last fifty years civil resistance has become increasingly frequent and effective, whereas violent insurgencies have become increasingly rare and unsuccessful. This is true even in extremely repressive, authoritarian conditions where we might expect nonviolent resistance to fail.

So why is civil resistance so much more effective than armed struggle? The answer lies in people power

►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w

#TEDxBoulder #non-violence #data #conflits #révolutions

Le site de l’auteure :
►http://www.ericachenoweth.com