Projects - Nonviolent Action Lab
Open Data
Nonviolent & Violent Campaigns & Outcomes (NAVCO)
The Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes (NAVCO) data project is the first of its kind to collect systematic data on both violent insurgencies and nonviolent civil resistance campaigns.
Crowd Counting Consortium
The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC) turns publicly available information on protests, marches, demonstrations, rallies, strikes, and other political crowds in the United States into structured data.
Women in Resistance (WiRe)
The Women in Resistance (WiRe) Dataset catalogues women’s participation in 338 maximalist resistance campaigns, meaning campaigns that call for the toppling of an oppressive government or for territorial self-determination.
Nonviolent Action Data Compendium
As part of its mission to amplify the work of other scholars and activists, the Nonviolent Action Lab is building an annotated compendium of data sets relevant to the analysis of nonviolent action, other forms of contentious collective action, state responses to them, and their effects and effectiveness.
Resistance Atlas
In early 2021, the Lab expects to launch an interactive dashboard that will allow users to explore historical and contemporary cases of nonviolent resistance around the world.
Building Community
Topol Research Fellowships
The Topol Research Fellowship recognizes and supports Harvard Kennedy School students interested in, and committed to, nonviolent action.
Defending Digital Dissent
The Lab plans to provide up-to-date resources, information guides, and toolkits for people involved in activism, organizing, and dissent to help them protect their digital networks, accounts, and platforms.