Nonviolent Action and Social Change

Lab leaders: María Belén Garrido, Karen Ross, Jeff Pugh

At a time of advancing authoritarianism and intensifying social conflict, the Nonviolent Action and Social Change lab fosters a community of scholars, practitioners, and activists working to understand and apply "people power" and the transformative potential of collective action for justice, social change, and to resist oppression.  By strengthening networks and solidarity among activists and movements around the world, and by creating an infrastructure for applied research, impact assessment, training, and information and resource sharing, the lab contributes to analyzing and building a global pro-democracy movement committed to human rights and social justice.  

Core projects include the Scaling Up Peacebuilding and Social Change toolkit, and a strategic alliance with Regional Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action in the Americas, including the In Movement blog and the Portraits of Resistance podcast.

Alliances

Laboratorio de Paz y Conflicto - Lab-Paz - FLACSO Ecuador

Events

Conferences

Publications

María Belén Garrido, Paola Lozada, Pryanka Peñafiel-Cevallos, Cécile Mouly and Jeffrey D. Pugh, “La acción noviolenta estratégica en los procesos de diálogo democrático”, in Diálogos para la Paz: Miradas desde la diversidad, edited by Augusto Barrera, María Augusta Espín, Sebastián Granda Merchán, Ralf Oetzel (Abya-Yala), pp. 231-256. 

Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra, Seema Shekhawat, Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan. Syracuse University Press, Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution Series (2023).