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In recent articles, we’ve shared our Crowd Counting Consortium data about the widespread protests that have occurred so far during the second Trump administration. We’ve shared that…
Erica Chenoweth
Erica Chenoweth is a political scientist at Harvard University. They study how people effectively resist authoritarianism and push for systemic democratic change. Chenoweth has written nine books and hundreds of articles, including Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2021). At Harvard, Chenoweth directs the Nonviolent Action Lab.
No Kings Day on June 14 was one of the largest single days of protest in United States history, and it was probably the…
On streets and highway passes, at intersections and in parks, millions of Americans continue to turn out to protest against the Trump…
“Where is the resistance?” is a common refrain. Our research affirms that resistance is alive and well. Many underestimate resistance to the current Republican administration…
Well before this midterm election, scholar/activists Erica Chenoweth and Zoe Marks “had been watching what’s happening to American democracy with great concern…
One year after the Women’s March on Washington, people are still protesting en masse. A lot. We’ve counted
Historical studies suggest that it takes 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance to topple brutal dictatorships
The technology provides activists with ways to organise like never before, but it also makes them much easier to track, fuels misinformation and copycat revolutions that are doomed to fail
Among the arguments Pope Francis used to encourage the conference participants was the dramatic rise in the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance over the past century
This is a situation that calls for policies that embody compassion, respect, protection, and welcome—not fear, dehumanization, exclusion, or revulsion