Summary
Searchable database of hundreds of historical and contemporary nonviolent campaigns, hosted by Swarthmore College.
Body
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu
The Global Nonviolent Action Database (Swarthmore) catalogues over 1,000 campaigns with structured fields: actors, methods, target, outcome, sources. Useful for sourcing case studies and for method-pattern analysis (which methods have been used in which contexts, with which outcomes). Treat as link-only.
Use it for
Finding a precedent case to compare against; building a case-study slide; checking whether a tactic has been tried in a given context.
Related
- boycotts-and-strikes
- civil-resistance
- constructive-programme
- nonviolent-direct-action
- pillars-of-support
- power-mapping
- theory-of-change
- three-and-a-half-percent-rule
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