Erica Chenoweth is the Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights & International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Foreign Policy ranked Chenoweth among the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013 for "proving Gandhi right." Chenoweth also won the 2014 Karl Deutsch Award, given annually by the International Studies Association to the scholar under 40 who has made the most significant impact on the field of international politics or peace research. Chenoweth is the co-author of Why Civil Resistance Works, which won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Prize, the most prestigious award in the field.

"Civil Resistance is an absolutely essential book for peace activists and anybody interested in history or in creating a better world. So pretty much everyone, then" -- Ian Sinclair, Peace News. February 2022.

"Erica Chenowethâs book is the user manual we need for the long and difficult struggle ahead of us." -- Deepak BhargavaÂandÂHarry Hanbury, The Forge

"Chenoweth provides a fantastic compendium of scholarship and general insights on civil resistance that should be valuable for academics and activists alike." -- Jessica Maves Braithwaite, International Relations

"Erica Chenowethâs latest book...offers a detailed and approachable insight into civil resistance, representing the pinnacle of their work on the use of violence within civil action." -- Francisca Castro, Social Movement Studies

"Erica Chenoweth has written an excellent book on civil resistance" -- Ron Pagnucco, The Journal of Social Encounters

"This book is as much advocacy as it is an analysis of nonviolence. Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know is an unwavering introductory guide and comprehensive toolkit to civil resistance's methods and potential." -- Maiyoraa Jeyabraba, Journal of Peace Research