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New Publication for
2025 Copenhagen People Power ConferenceTowards a People’s Peace
This April, ICNC Press has released a collection of framing essays for the 2025 Copenhagen People Power Conference, in collaboration with ActionAid Denmark. This book brings together cutting-edge research and first-person accounts from activists and peacebuilders on the frontlines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka, alongside insights for a global solidarity movement from activists in Palestine, Ukraine, and Lebanon. It offers a bold vision for how movements can shape peace and security, and practical lessons for policymakers and allies committed to supporting peace from below.
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Webinar:
How Polish Judges Fought to Keep Their Independence
with Dr. Marcin Mrowicki
and panelists Elizabeth A. Wilson and Doug ColtartThis webinar explores the ways in which the legal community can draw practical lessons from the Polish judiciary’s resistance to authoritarian pressures under the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS). It delves into the tactics judges employed to safeguard their independence, from subtle acts of defiance within courtrooms to collective public resistance.
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Recent Publication:
All Rise: Judicial Resistance in Poland
All Rise: Judicial Resistance in Poland by Dr. Marcin Mrowicki investigates the strategic and organized resistance of Polish judges against the authoritarian encroachments on judicial independence by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party from 2015 to 2023. Under the leadership of Jarosław Kaczyński, PiS systematically targeted key judicial institutions like the Constitutional Tribunal and the Supreme Court, implementing reforms to undermine judicial autonomy. This assault sparked an unprecedented resistance movement among Polish judges, who employed legal and extralegal tactics to defend the rule of law.
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Recent Publication:
Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave: A Playbook for Countering the Authoritarian Threat combines insights on civil resistance, democratic waves, autocratization, democratic backsliding, international law, and other disciplines to advance a foreign policy approach that supports and enables pro-democracy and human rights movements.
Watch the promotional video and download the publication:
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Throughout the year, ICNC is offering a number of academic opportunities, resources, and support that it makes available to scholars and students. The field of civil resistance has grown immensely and these academic programs aim to respond to the growing demand for knowledge and skills and contribute to expanding the quality of education, research, and curriculum related to civil resistance. This page includes the 
