Revolution and Response – This is the second part of a four part series exploring England’s Education System.
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The UK’s Protests of 2010: A Struggle for Democratic Education
A Brief History of the English Education System – This is the first part of a four part series
The Nonviolence Project is Hiring!
The Nonviolence Project is hiring student researchers! Apply here!
Oral History Interview with Antonio Salazar-Hobson
This oral history interview was conducted by Gabe Sanders with Antonio Salazar-Hobson, a tribal and labor lawyer who has worked with Cesar Chavez. Below is a summary of the oral history, as well as the transcript itself.
Nonviolence Project researcher Axell Boomer awarded 2024 Beinecke Scholarship
Axell Boomer, a senior Nonviolence Project student researcher, has been awarded a 2024 Beinecke Scholarship!
Spectacle and Nonviolent Struggles During the Vietnam War
It’s the late 1960s. A small, boxy television flickers on in the den just in time to catch the beginning of the nightly news. Like many nights before– and many to come– images of death and destruction from some far off communist country in Asia light up the room.
Amazigh Nonviolence: Language, Land, and Blood
The indigenous Amazigh people of North Africa have preserved their language and culture through centuries of pressure to assimilate. They fight for linguistic rights and land rights across the region known as Tamazgha.
Civil Protest in Northern Ireland
Since the partition of Ireland in December of 1920, Northern Ireland has been characterized as a deeply polarized society…By the 1960s, a loose network, activists, groups, and organizations (known as the CRM network) began to challenge the discriminatory practices.
Kwame Nkrumah: Wrestling with Nonviolence
Nkrumah believed that Ghana’s fate was intertwined with that of all Africans. He famously said that “the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.”
News Flush: O’Hare Restrooms Occupied in the Greatest Protest That Never Happened
The Woodlawn Organization (TWO) was born in 1960 out of squalor and neglect. Located on the southern outskirts of the University of Chicago: Hyde Park, the neighborhood of Woodlawn had been pulverized by the pervasive “racial discrimination, metropolitan residential segregation, and unequal schooling”—not to mention collapse of industrial employment—that defined the 1950s.