The Strategic Dimensions of Civil Resistance

摘要

Before, during and after the great wars of the last century, a series of other conflicts took place, not between nations but within them, conflicts waged by organised civilian populations that centred on self-determination and freedom from oppression. These conflicts have been overshadowed by intercontinental and guerrilla war, genocide and terror, but the lessons of successful collective application of nonviolent sanctions may be as pertinent as those of epic naval battles in the Pacific, or fighting in the jungles of Indochina or the streets of Baghdad.