Erica Chenoweth (Harvard) will deliver the KCL Peace Lecture:

 

 “Does Nonviolent Resistance Have a Future?”

 

Time: Fri, 1 March 2019, 18:30 – 19:30 GMT
Place: Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 (Bush House North Entrance, 30 Aldwych, WC2B 4BG)

More: Details and free Registration.

Erica Chenoweth is Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her research focuses on political violence and its alternatives. Foreign Policy magazine ranked her among the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2013.

Chenoweth’s forthcoming book, Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford, 2019), explores what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how violence and repression affect it, and the long-term impacts of such resistance.