Civil Resistance
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Erica Chenoweth
Reviews and Awards
"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 Chenoweth's book is the user manual we need for the long and difficult struggle ahead of us." - Deepak Bhargava and Harry 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 Chenoweth's 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