YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x more likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of a population has ever failed
YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x more likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of a population has ever failed
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

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How in the world did you derive those numbers? How do you even quantify that in practice?
Also, of course British State Media is going to discourage violent protests.
10 0 ReplyI would encourage you to read the actual research. It's all documented there.
5 0 ReplyYou don't actually have any idea how they derived those numbers, do you?
6 0 ReplyI do because I've read the research on which it was based. It's complicated though, you should read the paper.
4 0 ReplyYeah yeah, and your girlfriend goes to a different school
4 0 Replyno one cares
3 0 ReplyReading comprehension is hard isn't it
3 0 Replyif you believe that research, then you've got bigger problems than reading comprehension.
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