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. The coverage is global, but it is limited to maximalist campaigns, meaning those which seek to overthrow an incumbent government, to expel a foreign military occupation, or to secede from an existing state.
NAVCO now has multiple published versions, as well as several others in progress. All versions and supporting materials can be found on the project’s...
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. The dataset identifies both nonviolent and violent maximalist campaigns in every country in the world from 1945 to 2014, providing a comprehensive and systematic look at various dimensions of women's participation in both types of campaigns.
The WiRe dataset and supporting materials can be found on the project’s...
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
The Topol Research Fellowship recognizes and supports Harvard Kennedy School students interested in, and committed to, nonviolent action.
The Topol Fellowship aims to help students to develop a more robust, evidence-based and comprehensive understanding of nonviolent resistance movements, and to deepen their knowledge about nonviolent movements around the world. Topol Fellows support data collection at the Nonviolent Action Lab, attend a monthly discussion group on nonviolent action, and attend a global nonviolent action summit. Topol Fellows receive an...
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. In traditional fashion, each entry in the compendium will describe what the data set covers, how it was produced, and how to access it. More novelly, each entry will also apply lenses from critical theory related to gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, and state-centrism to...
While problems of police brutality and broader challenges of systemic racism are ingrained in the nation’s DNA, more recent phenomena—such as the use of technology to document said violence, the rise of social movements and digital campaigns to advocate for Black lives, and the growth of intersectionality in civil society amongst immigrant rights, queer liberation, and racial justice movements—have catapulted these issues to the fore.
As we continue the centuries-long journey of tackling racial injustice in the United States, the Carr Center for Human Rights Racial...
