This course provides a multidisciplinary perspective on nonviolent, civilian-based movements and campaigns that defend and obtain basic rights and justice around the world, and in so doing transform the global security environment.
Course Overview
The rise of nonviolent, people power movements around the world has become a defining feature of the 21st century. Organized citizen campaigns and movements using nonviolent methods are challenging formidable opponents: unaccountable governance, systemic corruption, institutionalized discrimination, environmental degradation, dictatorship, foreign military occupation, and violent extremism. Their “weapons” are not guns or bombs but rather protests, boycotts, sit-ins, civil disobedience, building of alternative institutions, and hundreds of other nonviolent tactics. Combined with the use of traditional political and legal means, these movements have and continue to shape political, social and economic change across the globe.
Participants in this course will:
- Learn from a diverse set of activists, scholars and practitioners through stories, research, and exercises.
- Transform how they analyze and think about conflict – its value, mode, and outcomes.
- Engage with a growing community of learners and experts enrolled in the course through a continuous series of live, interactive, and collaborative online events.
- Co-create new knowledge and insights to enhance and update the course as the field evolves.
Activists, civil society leaders, scholars, regional experts, policymakers from governments and international organizations, journalists, religious figures, educators/trainers, and those with a keen interest in how ordinary people are transforming conflicts through nonviolent action are encouraged to enroll and join this powerful global conversation.
INSTRUCTOR AND GUEST EXPERTS
Course Instructors
- Daryn Cambridge, Professional Development Portfolio Manager, EPIC, Training Resources Group
- Maria J. Stephan, former Director of the program on Nonviolent Action, U.S. Institute of Peace
Guest Experts
- Dr. Peter Ackerman, Founding Chair, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
- Dr. Maciej Bartkowski, Senior Director, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
- Dr. Erica Chenoweth, Associate Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver
- Dr. Mary Elizabeth King, Professor, University for Peace
- John Lewis, U.S. House of Representatives
- Georgia Ivan Marovic, Organizer, Software Developer and Social Innovator
- Erin Mazursky, Founder and Executive Director, Rhize
- Hardy Merriman, President, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
How to register
Register Here: https://www.usip.org/academy/catalog/civil-resistance-1-dynamics-nonviolent-movements
