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  • Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts

    05/16/2019 8:05:59 AM PDT · by rktman · 21 replies
    bbc.com ^ | 5/14/2019 | David Robson
    Header: Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change. n 1986, millions of Filipinos took to the streets of Manila in peaceful protest and prayer in the People Power movement. The Marcos regime folded on the fourth day. In 2003, the people of Georgia ousted Eduard Shevardnadze through the bloodless Rose Revolution, in which protestors stormed the parliament building holding the flowers in their hands. Earlier this year, the presidents of Sudan and Algeria both announced they would step...