James Lawson Institute

Hardy Merriman, “Korbel Quickfacts of Peace and Security: Key Resources for Movement Organizers,” Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, December 2016.

• Civil resistance movement organizers face many common challenges, including developing a unifying vision, building trust among different communities, eliciting widespread participation, coordinating coherent local and national strategies, training participants committed to nonviolent action, and withstanding repression.
• In many parts of the world there is also little information available about how to successfully organize civil resistance movements, and virtually no infrastructure or standardized edu- cational processes for learning about this eld.
• It is remarkable that civil resistance movements have achieved a relatively high success rate in spite of these challenges. How effective might such movements be if movement organizers had greater support in their learning and work?[…]

http://www.du.edu/korbel/sie/media/documents/quickfacts-and-policy-briefs/qf-resourcesformovementleaders.pdf