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Ranging from the American Revolution to Kosovo in the 1990s, from Egypt under colonial rule to present-day West Papua and Palestine, the authors of Recovering Nonviolent History consider several key questions: What kinds of civilian-based nonviolent strategy and tactics have been used in liberation struggles? What accounts for their successes and failures? How did nonviolent resistance influence national identities and nascent state institutions? And, why has this history been so often ignored?
Mary Elizabeth King tells us about the relationship between the US Civil Rights Movement and India's struggle for independence.
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"I do not hold to nonviolence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons."
— Aung San Suu Kyi —
