International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)
Summary
Research and education institute focused on civil-resistance strategy, with many resources translated into multiple languages.
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The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) is a research and education institute focused on civil-resistance strategy, founded in the early 2000s and headquartered in Washington, DC [source: icnc]. ICNC’s mission is to help understand and support nonviolent struggles for rights, freedom, and dignity, and its work spans academic-grade monographs, pedagogical reports, case studies, and a multilingual resource library that has been translated into many of the languages where civil-resistance movements are active [source: icnc]. The institute is best known for its monograph series, which include the influential Civil Resistance Tactics in the 21st Century (see civil-resistance-tactics-21c), Why Civil Resistance Works (see why-civil-resistance-works), and a steady stream of working papers on mass-mobilisation dynamics [source: icnc].
Coverage: ICNC’s research themes include the strategic logic of civil-resistance campaigns, the role of internal discipline and external support, the dynamics of participation decline and backfire, the relationship between civil resistance and armed conflict, and patterns of historical success and failure [source: icnc]. The institute curates a multilingual resource library on civil-resistance research and pedagogy, hosts an annual conference (the Waging Peace conference series), and funds fellows whose work feeds into the monograph stream [source: icnc]. The full monograph catalogue is downloadable from the ICNC site under the institute’s publication policy, with attribution requested but without a strict CC licence attached by default [source: icnc].
A campaigner reaches for it as one of the four or five canonical research streams on civil-resistance strategy (alongside NAVCO, the Global Nonviolent Action Database, the Albert Einstein Institution, and the academic journals Mobilization and Journal of Peace Research) and as a publisher of well-researched pedagogical monographs in multiple languages [source: icnc]. Sourcing strategic frames for nonviolent campaigns; finding research-grounded case studies. Treat material as link-only. [source: icnc]
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Sourcing strategic frames for nonviolent campaigns; finding research-grounded case studies.
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