Updating nonviolent campaigns

Introducing Navco 2.1

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ID3918549
AuthorsErica Chenoweth (0000-0003-3113-2439, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, corresponding author), Christopher Wiley Shay (0000-0001-8399-6509, University of Connecticut & Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University)
Year2022
Volume59
Issue6
Pages876-889
Publication date2022-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00223433221092938
OpenAlexW2811172770
LanguageEN
Citations received20
References cited21

In this article, we introduce an updated version of the Nonviolent and Violent Campaigns and Outcomes dataset (NAVCO 2.1), which compiles annual data on 389 nonviolent and violent mass movements for regime change, anti-occupation, and secession from 1945 to 2013. This version of the dataset corrects known coding errors in NAVCO 2.0, adds news cases (including the Arab uprisings), and codes attributes for each campaign year (such as participation size and diversity, the behavior of regime elites, repression and its effects, support from external actors, and campaign outcomes). In addition, NAVCO 2.1 adds several new attributes to each campaign-year, including more precise participation figures, more nuanced data about the scope, intensity, and degree of violent flank behavior and state repression, and further information about the parallel or alternative institutions developed by the campaign. The data reveal four key findings: (1) that the success rate of nonviolent resistance campaigns has declined since 2001; (2) that far more people have participated in nonviolent than violent campaigns in the postwar period; (3) that nonviolent campaigns suffer far fewer per-capita fatalities than armed campaigns; and (4) that incidental violence by dissidents has become a more common feature of contemporary nonviolent campaigns compared with earlier cases. The article concludes with suggestions for further research

Criminology · Environmental health · Per capita · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Secession · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Demography · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development

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