Nonviolent Conflict Summaries
Below is a list of conflict summaries that discuss the history behind, actions during, and ensuing events of major nonviolent movements of the 20th and early 21st centuries. We are not longer making updates to these summaries, nor commissioning additional summaries.
Africa
Senegal: 1974-present
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The Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa (1912-1992)
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The pro-democracy movement in Zimbabwe (1998-present)
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The Gambia: 1994-present
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Guinea: 1958-present
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Mali’s March Revolution (1991)
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Asia
The struggle for self-determination in West Papua (1969-present)
The Maldives – From Dictatorship to Democracy, and Back?
Aceh: Struggle for self-determination (1998-2001)
The Chinese pro-Democracy Movement: 1987-1989
The Indian Independence Struggle (1930-1931)
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Pakistan’s Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (1981-1984)
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Pakistan’s Lawyers Movement (2007-2009)
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The Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) Movement: Badshah Khan and the Northwest Frontier in British India (1933-1937)
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Central and South America
The Mothers of the Disappeared: Challenging the Junta in Argentina (1977-1983)
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Chile: Struggle against a military dictator (1985-1988)
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Colombia: Opposing violent insurgents, social violence and a corrupt state (1990-present)
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Guatemala: Ongoing
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