Waging Nonviolence
https://wagingnonviolence.org/
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Waging Nonviolence is an online reporting project that covers nonviolent movements worldwide, with feature reporting, strategic analysis, and read-and-share essays on contemporary campaigns [source: waging-nonviolence]. The site’s case-study value is high because it focuses on contemporary campaigns (Occupy, climate activism, racial-justice mobilisations, anti-authoritarian movements, and regional data-centre opposition) with detailed reporting on strategy and tactics rather than retrospective narratives [source: waging-nonviolence]. Articles are published under a Creative Commons licence, which is what makes Waging Nonviolence one of the most-cited open-access sources for movement reporting in the global nonviolent-movement literature [source: waging-nonviolence].
Coverage and editorial scope: the homepage on the scrape date surfaces a feature on a pro-democracy movement in Albania triggered by a luxury-resort development on protected wetlands; an analysis essay arguing that movements at their most powerful withdraw cooperation from unjust systems and build the capacity to live without them; a feature on a regional movement that grew out of one city’s successful effort to stop a data centre; and a feature on protesters attempting to blockade weapons shipments as part of a global effort to undercut the pillars of the war machine [source: waging-nonviolence]. The publication alternates long-form features with shorter analytical pieces and podcasts, and treats movement strategy as a sustained topic rather than a one-off news beat [source: waging-nonviolence].
A campaigner reaches for Waging Nonviolence when sourcing movement reporting that is contemporary, analytically framed, and reusable in their own publications - the CC licence means short passages can be quoted with attribution and link-back to wagingnonviolence.org, which is one of the few movement-reporting outlets with explicit reusability terms [source: waging-nonviolence]. It’s also a useful case-study pool to scan for how a current movement is choosing tactics, who the players are, and where the strategic debate sits. Treat as CC-attribution; reproduce short passages with attribution. [source: waging-nonviolence]
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Sourcing movement reporting; finding contemporary case studies.
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