Civil Resistance Research Paper

Does peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impact a free society? Will to me peaceful resistance impact positively the society. I said peaceful because Civil resistance is a way for ordinary people to fight for their rights, freedom and justice without using violence. People engaged in civil resistance use diverse nonviolent tactics—such as strikes, boycotts, mass demonstrations and other actions—to create social, political and economic change. Civil resistance movements are powerful because they shift people’s loyalties and behavior patterns. When people in a society choose to withdraw their consent from, and reduce their obedience and cooperation with, an unjust system, that system becomes more costly to operate. When enough …show more content…
I often focus on “the tough cases” where conventional wisdom states that successful nonviolent resistance would be impossible. Yet history is replete with cases where unarmed resistance was successful against powerful and entrenched adversaries. The questions that guide my work involve understanding what makes such cases successful and how to apply these lessons to nonviolent movements today. That"s why Civil resistance movements are powerful because they shift people’s loyalties and behavior patterns. When people in a society choose to withdraw their consent from, and reduce their obedience and cooperation with, an unjust system, that system becomes more costly to operate. When enough people choose to no longer consent and obey, the system can become unsustainable, and it then must change, transform, or collapse. Civil resistance is a way for ordinary people to fight for their rights, freedom and justice without using violence. People engaged in civil resistance use diverse nonviolent tactics—such as strikes, boycotts, mass demonstrations and other actions—to create social, political and economic change. That's why Civil resistance movements is