Organizing vs. Mobilizing

Organizers use strategy to help people turn what they have (resources) into what they need (power) to get to what they want (goal).

How Can a Movement Increase Participation?

Article: Give Peaceful Resistanc e a Chance

In her 2011 New York Times op-ed, Give Peaceful Resistance a Chance, Dr. Erica Chenoweth looked at events ongoing at the time in the Middle East and North Africa and argued that the movements that remain nonviolent have a much greater likelihood of succeeding and leading to a functioning democracy.

Mobilization

Organizing vs. Mobilizing

Organizers use strategy to help people turn what they have (resources) into what they need (power) to get to what they want (goal).

How Can a Movement Increase Participation?

Article: Give Peaceful Resistanc e a Chance