{"id":11963,"date":"2015-01-11T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T14:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2015-01-11T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T18:30:50","slug":"peaceful-protests-are-more-successful-than-violent-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/peaceful-protests-are-more-successful-than-violent-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful Protests Are More Successful Than Violent Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/011115_1825_PeacefulPro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Max Fisher wrote about how best to overthrow a government:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Research indicates that about 50% of peaceful uprisings succeed in their objectives while violent ones are only half as successful.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The success of peaceful protests is a recent phenomenon. Up until about the 1950s it was violent ones that were more successful.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The data suggests that once 3.5% of a country&#8217;s population becomes involved in an uprising, the rate of success shoots up to 100%.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">No violent campaign has managed to achieve participation by 3.5% of the country thus the strategy&#8217;s relative lack of success.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Part of the reason why violence is unsuccessful is because violent protests legitimize the use of force by the regime, allowing them to crush the revolution.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">They can also unite what may have previously been a divided regime on the brink of collapse.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">And violent protesters may lose the sympathy of the wider populace thus failing to spark a broader revolution.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Peaceful revolutions have other benefits. They are 15% less likely to relapse into civil war than violent ones.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read more about the benefits of non-violence, and see some fascinating charts over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/11\/05\/peaceful-protest-is-much-more-effective-than-violence-in-toppling-dictators\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/wp\/2013\/11\/05\/peaceful-protest-is-much-more-effective-than-violence-in-toppling-dictators\/\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Fisher wrote about how best to overthrow a government: Research indicates that about 50% of peaceful uprisings succeed in their objectives while violent ones are only half as successful. The success of peaceful protests is a recent phenomenon. Up until about the 1950s it was violent ones that were more successful. 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