The Checklist to End Tyranny
How Dissidents Will Win 21st Century Civil Resistance Campaigns
Published on 15. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-943271-50-4 (ISBN)
Description
Today the deadliest conflicts are not between states but rather within them, pitting tyrants against the populations they oppress. Over a century of data shows that civil resistance campaigns-employing strikes, boycotts, mass protests, and many other nonviolent tactics-are the most powerful means for societies to confront authoritarians. The Checklist to End Tyranny is dedicated to enabling dissidents to become more strategic in their thinking and therefore more skillful in their quest to achieve democracy and human rights. This volume is also a unique resource in helping professionals in the foreign policy and democracy promotion communities to understand at a granular level what it takes for pro-democracy activists to end the dictatorships they are living under. The stakes could not be higher. If the world is to have a Fourth Democratic Wave expanding freedom over oppression, then civil resistance campaigns will lead the way.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
432 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943271-50-4 (9781943271504)
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Dr. Peter Ackerman is the Founding Chair of ICNC, and one of the world's leading authorities on nonviolent conflict. He holds a Ph.D. from The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and is also co-author of two seminal books on nonviolent resistance, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2001) and Strategic Nonviolent Conflict: The Dynamics of People Power in the Twentieth Century (Praeger, 1994).Dr. Ackerman was the Executive Producer of the PBS-TV documentary, "Bringing Down a Dictator", on the fall of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic. It received a 2003 Peabody Award and the 2002 ABC News VideoSource Award of the International Documentary Association. He was also the Series Editor and Principal Content Advisor for the two-part Emmy-nominated PBS-TV series, "A Force More Powerful," which charts the history of civilian-based resistance in the 20th century.