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NONVIOLENT CONFLICT WORLDWIDE

In recent years various dictatorships have collapsed when confronted by defiant, mobilized people. Often seen as strong and powerful, some of these dictatorships proved unable to oppose focused and strategically planned popular movement campaigns.

Since 1980s dictatorships were defeated by nonviolent movements of people in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Slovenia, Madagascar, Mali, Bolivia, and the Philippines.

Nonviolent resistance has strengthened pro-democratic movements in Nepal, Zambia, South Korea, Chile, Argentina, China, Haiti, Brazil, Uruguay, Malawi, Thailand, Bulgaria, Hungary, Zaire, Nigeria, Lebanon, Venezuela and various parts of the former Soviet Union.

In addition, mass political defiance has occurred in Burma, Zimbabwe, Maldives, Thonga and Tibet in recent years. Although those struggles have not brought victory over dictators, they badly harmed the authority of those oppressive regimes both in countries and international community.

At the end, the newest examples of perfectly implemented Strategic Nonviolent Action knowledge in Serbia, in huge and coordinated multi-level campaign which defeated Slobodan Milosevic at October 5, 2000 and very similar recent example in Georgia 2003 and Ukraine in 2004 strengthens the impression of Universality of this method.

CANVAS founders and friends were directly included in knowledge and experience transfer process to the leaders and activists of democratic movements in many of this countries. It works worldwide!

Go and learn about the World Battlefield, in Global Arena For Nonviolent struggle.