Articles by Hardy Merriman

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Glossary of Civil Resistance: A Resource for Study and Translation of Key Terms
Hardy Merriman and Nicola Barrach-Yousefi | International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, 1 Mar 2021

Jan 2021 -The field of civil resistance is dedicated to understanding how people can fight for rights, freedom, and justice, without the use of violence. This glossary provides definitions and expansive commentary on civil resistance terminology to support sharing of lessons learned and research across different languages.

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Democracy Insurance
Hardy Merriman | International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2017

We know that a unified and mobilized population—capable of imposing costs on unaccountable power holders through nonviolent tactics such as strikes, boycotts, and civil disobedience—is often essential to protecting and expanding civic space. There is an art and a science to how ordinary people have done this and nonviolent civil resistance has proven remarkably adaptable at addressing a variety of situations relevant to democratic backsliding, including:

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