About the Author

Maciej J. Bartkowski is senior director for research and education at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Washington DC, USA.

Reviews

Greatly expand[s] our knowledge of not only the extent of nonviolent action, but how its dynamic operates and contributes to a society's ethos. Due to this groundbreaking text, we now have greater access to the breadth [and] depth ... of the people's power. This very important book establishes beyond doubt the necessity of recording the history of nonviolent struggles throughout the world…. The authors' accounts of actual struggles from nearly every continent demonstrate that we have available experience with powerful ways to wage conflicts and face problems without violence. Recovering Nonviolent History brings to the fore the role of the masses in mobilizing for their emancipation from oppression in all its guises, using peaceful, nonviolent tactics…. It makes a substantive contribution to the existing body of knowledge on resistance struggles the world over. No single volume has ever explored the dynamics of nonviolent contention in as broad a range of contexts as Recovering Nonviolent History. It is an altogether indispensable volume. Due to this groundbreaking text, we now have greater access to the breadth [and] depth ... of the people's power.