For Activists and Organizers, ICNC

ICNC (International Centre on Non-Violent Conflict) provides information and educational opportunities about nonviolent civil resistance to activists and organizers around the world. Their view is that nonviolent struggle is a social science that can be studied and understood, and that practitioners increase their chances of success by learning from each other as well as from cutting edge academic scholarship on this topic.

While there is no simple formula for success, there are lessons, insights, and general principles that can be discerned about how ordinary people unify themselves, organize, mobilize, strategize, communicate, build coalitions, maintain nonviolent discipline, resist repression, and engage in effective civil resistance against oppressive and corrupt political, economic, and social systems. We draw examples from diverse movements around the world, including movements struggling for democratic rights, accountability and transparency (anti-corruption), self-determination, minority rights, women’s rights, indigenous and land rights, labor rights, environmental justice, and a wide variety of other causes.