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Lessons from Civil Resistance for the Battle against Financial Corruption

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Peter Ackerman  and
Shaazka Beyerle
Peter Ackerman
Affiliation:
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, USA
Shaazka Beyerle*
Affiliation:
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, USA
*
Shaazka Beyerle, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, P.O. Box 27606, Washington, DC 20038, USA. Email: sbeyerle@nonviolent-conflict.org
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Abstract

The first part of this article presents an overview of civil resistance theory and practice, including key concepts and the historical record of nonviolent movements ending authoritarian and occupying regimes. It will also present a practical checklist for assessing why people power movements succeed or fail. The second part of this article will demonstrate how civil resistance applies to the global scourge of financial corruption. It will first illustrate two recent successful people power campaigns against financial corruption, then examine their dynamics in terms of new research and analysis of organized, collective nonviolent action targeting graft and abuse. Finally, it will adapt the general civil resistance checklist to the anti-corruption arena, concluding with the specific elements that are most critical to curbing financial corruption.

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Diogenes , Volume 61 , Issue 3-4: Theories and Practices of Non-Violence , August 2014 , pp. 82 - 96
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Copyright © ICPHS 2016

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