An Unarmed Inserruction

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to this idea often claim that violence is necessary to trigger a real revolutionary change. In other words, they assume that nonviolent resistance is not effective at all. Indeed, as Mao, a communist revolutionary, putted it "is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development without violence." It can be understood why those claimers may quote Mao who died in 1973 or even other revolutionaries. Nonviolent struggle has been mentioned years ago, but it is at present that it is being developed and studied in depth. In the past, violence may have been necessary o even the only option available, but nowadays, more efficient methods to stand up for our rights can be developed. Indeed, statistics supports that those new methods are more efficient. Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. in their book Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict stated that "between 1900 and 2006, nonviolent resistance campaigns were nearly twice as likely to achieve full or partial success as their violent counterparts."

To sum up, it may be assumed that violence is still in the ascendant over nonviolence resistance, but today, more people are interested in studying this phenomenon because it seems, according to statistics, effective. The reasons of its effectiveness have to do with the fact that nonviolence resistance opens a door to bargaining and it masses people . Although violence is more common than nonviolence struggle, we, the citizenry, should get involved and try to propose this new motto "nonviolent resistance does work."

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