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IGNORED by the mainstream media, in 2018 Dr Evan Perkoski, an assistant professor in the department of political science at the University of Connecticut, and Erica Chenoweth, a professor in human rights & international affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, published a very important study titled Non-Violent Resistance and Prevention of Mass Killings During Popular Uprisings.
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Ian Sinclair: Your report is informed by the seminal 2011 Columbia University Press study Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict by your co-author Erica Chenoweth and Maria J Stephan.
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