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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict Paperback – 5 October 2001

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This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes from their means of control. They tell inside stories--how Danes outmaneuvered the Nazis, Solidarity defeated Polish communism, and mass action removed a Chilean dictator--and also how nonviolent power is changing the world today, from Burma to Serbia.

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    9780312240509
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    St. Martins Press-3PL
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    5 October 2001
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm
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"A Force More Powerful challenges a longstanding myth that lies at the heart of much of the turmoil of the 20th century: that power comes from the barrel of a gun; based on convincing detail, Ackerman and Duvall dare to claim that nonviolent movements lead to more secure democracies." --Christian Science Monitor

"A skillful blend of sweeping narrative and tightly focused case studies, the book fills a vacuum in historical studies of the 20th century." --Philadelphia Inquirer

"This throughly researched and highly readable book underlines the contrast between stable democratic societies created by nonviolent movements and tyrannical regimes born of violent revolution. Recommended..." --Library Journal

"...this book is an important documentation of non-violence as an attested historical force." --The Times Higher Education Supplement

About the Author

Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight is Peter's debut play, and ran off-Broadway in New York for six months and regionally throughout the US. It was recorded for radio by LA Theatre Works and broadcast on member NPR stations in the US and Canada. Peter has since written The Urn, which ran off off-Broadway and a radio play, I'd Rather Eat Pants. He is co-author of the animated movie, Ice Age, and is currently writting Jumanji 2 for Sony. As an actor he appeared off-Broadway in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and in Visiting Mr Green.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0312240503
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ St. Martins Press-3PL (5 October 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 562 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780312240509
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312240509
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm
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Sarah1989
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing how little is present in the media about the ...
Reviewed in the United States on 8 April 2018
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Amazing how little is present in the media about the effectiveness of nonviolence. I guess the weapons manufacturers need their profits.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Truth of the Matter
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Standing up to the entrenched institutional (possibly evil) powers that be, with love and unity. It’s been done, with documented success stories. This book is an historical record of what really happened.
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ejahebert
5.0 out of 5 stars I have been able to learn so much more about ...
Reviewed in the United States on 9 March 2015
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I have been able to learn so much more about our world's nonviolent history through this book. I wish this was something that was gone over in our public schools more. We all can learn so much from this history.
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Latin Honey
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on 1 May 2016
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I LOVE this book! So powerful, indeed! A must read
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Dave Todaro
4.0 out of 5 stars What Can We Learn from 20th Century History?
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If the 20th Century was the bloodiest in human history given its wars, genocides, and Marxist ideological purges, it was also a century that spawned powerful challenges on every continent to the dictum that “might makes right.” Ackerman and Duvall take us inside those challenges.

I grew up in the 1960s learning about “peaceful resistance” and “civil disobedience.” These terms take my thoughts to Martin Luther King and Mohandas Gandhi. You’ll read of the non-violent movements these men nursed into being, and about other compelling stories of people who used right, reason and universal ethics instead of guns and bombs to defeat dictatorship and disenfranchisement: Solidarity in Poland; Denmark vs. the Nazis, Argentineans and Chileans, South Africans and Palestinians, Filipinos, Salvadorans, and many others.

Two things make this book stand out. First, it presents non-violent conflict as a methodology that is divorced from a particular creed, flag or political ideology. Readers who can’t let go of strong geopolitical biases or religious beliefs may be scandalized by some of the people and institutions cast as “heroes” of the non-violent movements chronicled here. The authors are challenging us to get past our biases so that we can understand something more universal than our political or nationalistic preferences might allow, about the relationship between people and their rulers.

Many are familiar with the Enlightenment idea that a government’s legitimacy is derived from consent of the governed. Ackerman and Duvall want us to see this not as a slogan or even a noble ideal to which we should aspire: but as universal truth all governments ignore at their peril, and that any oppressed people group can harness in the fight to exercise their inherent human rights.

Second, the authors draw conclusions that guide people into changing the relationship between themselves and their oppressors. Along with successes, you’ll read about failures and of victories that could have been bigger had the movement been better-organized, more patient, better-trained, more committed to developing and exercising the ability to self-govern even during the struggle; and more pure in its commitment to non-violence.

Today’s cell phones and Internet provide unprecedented opportunities for the oppressed to get the story out and create a global movement to isolate the oppressor from the support they usually need to stay in power. Questions arise from this: Is every group who claims they are being oppressed and who take up non-violent conflict, worthy of support? How do we know the degree to which the things we’re given as evidence of the oppression are real or staged? The media has traditionally played the “curation” and “editorial” roles in deciding what is newsworthy and how it’s spun: can they still be trusted? The book may bring these questions into sharper focus.

It’s dense reading, and repetitive at times. Readers may want to slow down to understand the historical details that are less familiar to them, or perhaps to opt for the DVD version that aired on PBS. The attempts to relate the separate movements together sometimes help to clarify principles of effective non-violent resistance, and other times seem a bit forced. Those are the criticisms. The rest is all praise.
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