nonviolent resistance efforts

...As part of a 2008 study, sociologist Erica Chenoweth and co-author Maria J. Stephan reviewed all known major nonviolent and violent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006 to determine which organizing techniques have been most successful.

Nonviolent campaigns, they found, are “more likely to win legitimacy, attract widespread domestic and international support, neutralize the opponent’s security forces, and compel loyalty shifts among erstwhile opponent supporters.”

Chenoweth’s data also showed another essential thing about political movements: No nonviolent movement has ever failed once it achieved the active, sustained participation of 3.5% of the population....

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/world-we-want/opinion/2020/02/19/world-vision-future/