(np) nonviolent resistance more successful

[Michael Bailey]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/10/opinion/10chenoweth.html

http://wesinthenews.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2011/03/10/chenoweth-nonviolent-uprisings-have-good-success-rates/
historical evidence from 1900 to 2006 suggests that once nonviolent
campaigns have achieved a critical mass of supporters, civil
resistance campaigns have worked more often than they have failed.

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/isec.2008.33.1.7
"Our findings show that major nonviolent campaigns have achieved success
53 percent of the time, compared with 26 percent for violent resistance
campaigns"


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