The discipline of civil resistance has developed enormously in recent years. Driven by new quantitative and qualitative research–as well as by practitioners around the world applying, adapting, and advancing knowledge in struggles for freedom, rights, and justice–it is clear that the civil resistance has come of age as a growing area of academic interest and research.

ICNC’s academic initiatives aim to:

Support groundbreaking research to fill knowledge gaps in the scholarly literature and in areas of relevance to practitioners such as activists, organizers, members of the policy community, and journalists;

Increase exposure to the study of civil resistance among students and faculty around the world;

Foster interdisciplinary understanding, sharing, collaboration and the development of networks among scholars;

Increase communication and information exchange between scholars and practitioners;

Disseminate significant work and scholarly writing on civil resistance to diverse audiences;

Build and share a body of knowledge about how individuals and groups can be more strategic and effective in waging civil resistance struggles despite adverse conditions.

In all of our academic work and the research we support, we are committed to scientific objectivity grounded in sound and transparent methodologies of social science inquiry so as to ensure reliability, validity and replicability of findings. Our ongoing and past research and academic writing that we have supported attest to that commitment.

To make it easier for educators, teachers, and academics to access our most popular classroom resources, ICNC has compiled them into one central location. Visit ICNC Resources for Your Classroom for information on our resource library, webinars, Academic Online Curriculum, and more.

Please check out our various programs and resources below.