Civil Resistance and Democratic Transitions (FSI 2010)
Dr. Maciej Bartkowski
Senior Director, Education and Research
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Dr. Victoria Tin-Bor Hui
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Notre Dame University
Does the use of civil resistance create long-lasting effects on civil society and political life? Does participation in broad-based nonviolent movements instill democratic values, which make democracy more sustainable after a transition? These and other questions help explore what kind of social capital may be created by nonviolent movements, using the case of the Polish Solidarity movement in communist Poland and its residual effect on Polish society and politics in the immediate and long term perspectives following the events of 1989. This session took place at the 2010 Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict.
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International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
ICNC FSI Video, June 2010
Presentation made during the Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict — 2010
