Summary

The case-studies category covers worked examples of past and present campaigns — annotated wins, losses, and lessons.

Body

Case studies are the empirical base for any craft claim. The Global Nonviolent Action Database (Swarthmore) is the canonical source for historical civil-resistance cases; Beautiful Trouble, Beautiful Rising, and Waging Nonviolence document contemporary creative and movement campaigns. See civil-resistance, nonviolent-direct-action for the most-cited case methodologies.

Use it for

Finding a precedent; teaching with a worked example; supporting a strategic argument with evidence.

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