A Force More Powerful A Century of Non-violent Conflict

Description:

In this tour de force, Peter Ackerman, an acclaimed authority on nonviolent conflict, and Jack DuVall, a veteran writer, explore how popular movements have used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, frustrate military invaders and secure human rights in country after country and decade after decade. A gripping story of far flung geography, political and military crises, and heroic individuals, A Force More Powerful focuses on movements built from the ground up; such as India's movement toward independence under the leadership of Gandhi, Poland's Solidarity strikes which laid the foundation for the fall of communism, and the lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville which turned the nation's attention and the beginnings of the civil rights movement. In this inspiring chronicle the authors canvass the world to uncover the great nonviolent struggles of this century.

Selected Reviews:

"[A] comprehensive and lucidly written addition to the literature of peace....Ackerman and DuVall [deserve] praise for writing nonideologically when they might easily and self-indulgently not have...."

--Colman McCarthy, Nation