I have not read her book (yet – but I jet ordered it – paperback edition just out on Amazon on Dec 11, 2012 ) but I wonder if she discusses Gene Sharp's work (From Dictatorship to democracy). Some interesting statistics just in this press release. Excerpt:
The pair analyzed all known uprisings between 1900 and 2006 involving more than 1,000 people that related to a country’s secession, overthrow of a dictatorship or removal of a foreign occupation. They concluded that the non-violent campaigns succeeded twice as often as the violent ones.
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Dave
Erica Chenoweth, Terrorism and Insurgency Research Program Director at Sié Chéou-Kang Center, Wins Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
University of Denver professor shares award with her co-author for book on civil resistance
Press Release: Anna & John J. Sie Foundation – Thu, Dec 20, 2012 12:18 PM EST
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Erica Chenoweth, an assistant professor at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies and Director of the Program on Terrorism and Insurgency Research at the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy, has won the 2013 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
Chenoweth shares the award with Maria Stephan, a lead foreign affairs officer with the U.S. State Department and her co-author for the book “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Non-Violent Conflict” (Columbia University Press, 2011). Their studies found that non-violent resistance brings about political change much more effectively than the use of violence.
The pair analyzed all known uprisings between 1900 and 2006 involving more than 1,000 people that related to a country’s secession, overthrow of a dictatorship or removal of a foreign occupation. They concluded that the non-violent campaigns succeeded twice as often as the violent ones.
“Why Civil Resistance Works” also won the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs published in the U.S. during the previous calendar year.
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