{"id":36376,"date":"2013-11-18T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=36376"},"modified":"2015-05-05T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:21:12","slug":"the-success-of-nonviolent-civil-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/11\/the-success-of-nonviolent-civil-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nov 4, 2013<\/b><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent ones. <\/i><\/p>\n<p>Erica talks about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discusses the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st. She focuses on the so-called &#8220;3.5% rule&#8221;\u2014the notion that no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5% of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent civil resistance were twice as successful as violent ones. Erica talks about her research on the impressive historical record of civil resistance in the 20th century and discusses the promise of unarmed struggle in the 21st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}