Recent Posts by chelsea

Thousands of Monks Peacefully Confront Military in Burma

25 Sep 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

Students of principled nonviolence have long upheld Aung San Suu Kyi, Buddhist and leader of Burma’s democracy movement, as a luminary of nonviolent social change. On Saturday, the Burmese military junta allowed 500 monks to visit Suu Kyi at her home-prison, yielding to the recent massive nonviolent demonstrations by monks, students, and civic leaders. It [...]



Study finds nonviolence more effective than violence

09 Jul 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

Maria Stephan of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) and Erica Chenoweth of the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered remarkable findings in their study of the relative strategic effectiveness of violent and nonviolent asymmetric conflict.
Their study of terrorist groups, guerrilla movements, and nonviolent resistance movements found that nonviolent resistance movements have achieved partial [...]



Student Strikes Make History

21 Mar 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

“Student Strikes Make History ” by Will Parrish: Written by one of the organizers of the antiwar strike at UC Santa Barbara on February 15, this piece is a fabulous history of the power of student strikes in the past century.
“February 15th’s strike against war at UCSB follows in a long tradition of similar student [...]



The Berkeley Oaks – In search of a “shared victory”

04 Feb 2007 in Nonviolence in the News

In a Jan. 30th article in the San Francisco Chronicle, C.W. Nevius characterizes the conflict over the oak grove slated for destruction on UC Berkeley campus as a “ classic no-win situation”:
“If Cal officials leave the branch-sitters up in their trees, nothing will ever get done. But if they try to drag them down – [...]