Name: 【TED】Jamila Raqib: The secret to effective nonviolent resistance (The secret to effective nonviolent resistance | Jamila Raqib)
Uploaded: 2017-10-05T18:20:59.000Z
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War has been a part of my life since I can remember.

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I was born in Afghanistan, just six months after the Soviets invaded,

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and even though I was too young to understand what was happening,

I had a deep sense of the suffering and the fear around me.

Those early experiences had a major impact on how I now think about war and conflict.

I learned that when people have a fundamental issue at stake,

they need a powerful way to resist and to fight back.

Which means that no matter how destructive and terrible violence is,

Most of us are concerned with the level of violence in the world.

by telling people that violence is morally wrong.

that's at least as powerful and as effective as violence.

in some of the most difficult situations around the world

how they can use nonviolent struggle to conduct conflict.

Most people associate this type of action with Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

But people have been using nonviolent action for thousands of years.

In fact, most of the rights that we have today in this country --

as people of different sexual orientations

and citizens concerned with the environment --

They were won by people who fought for them

But because we haven't learned from this history,

nonviolent struggle as a technique is widely misunderstood.

I met recently with a group of Ethiopian activists,

and they told me something that I hear a lot.

They said they'd already tried nonviolent action,

The government arrested everyone, and that was the end of that.

The idea that nonviolent struggle is equivalent to street protests

Because although protests can be a great way to show that people want change,

on their own, they don't actually create change --

Powerful opponents are not going to give people what they want

Nonviolent struggle works by destroying an opponent,

but by identifying the institutions that an opponent needs to survive,

and then denying them those sources of power.

Nonviolent activists can neutralize the military

They can disrupt the economy through strikes and boycotts.

And they can challenge government propaganda

There are a variety of methods that can be used to do this.

has identified 198 methods of nonviolent action.

Guatemala was ruled by corrupt former military officials

but most of them felt powerless to do anything about it --

until one group of citizens, just 12 regular people,

put out a call on Facebook to their friends

to meet in the central plaza, holding signs with a message:

They stayed there for months as protests spread throughout the country.

the organizers delivered hundreds of eggs to various government buildings

"to stop corrupt candidates from running for office,

And the activists realized that they couldn't just keep protesting

in which people throughout the country refused to work.

over 400 businesses and schools shut their doors.

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【TED】Jamila Raqib: The secret to effective nonviolent resistance (The secret to effective nonviolent resistance | Jamila Raqib)

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