People Power

Howard Clark was a coordinator for War Resisters' International and embedded in civil peace initiatives in Kosovo throughout the 1990s. He is a founder of the Balkan Peace Team, and the author of People Power (Pluto, 2009).

'These cases are excellent analyses on how to generate non violent global transformation by working and acting locally' - Professor Kevin P Clements, Director National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand. 'Timely and stimulating' - Professor Paul Rogers, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University 'One of the world's most knowledgeable practitioners of the technique of non-violent civil resistance is the British activist-intellectual, Howard Clark. Based on his own broad experience from several decades of assisting local or national unarmed movements, he has gathered into one bracing volume a well-organised series of essays by seasoned observers or participants from across the globe' - Professor Mary E. King, UN-affiliated University for Peace, and prize-winning author of Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action, A Quiet Revolution: The F 'Without shying from the difficult debates, this book gives great insight into unarmed resistance movements. Highlighting their empowerment, diversity, and creativity, it shows how these movements provide solidarity and hope for all. - Carmen Magallón,  Vice-president, Spanish Association for Peace Research

Foreword
Introduction, by Howard Clark
Section I: Resisting Repression, Civil War and Exploitation 2000-2008: Analyses of Unarmed Struggle
1. Serbia - Nonviolent struggle for democracy: the role of Otpor by Danijela Nenadic and Nenad Belcevic
1a. Serbia Eight Years Afterby Ivan Franovic
2. Burma - Dialogue with the Generals: the sound of one hand clapping by Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan
3. Zimbabwe - Unarmed resistance, civil society and the limits of international solidarity by Janet Cherry
4. Nonviolent Movement for Peace in Colombia and International Solidarity by Mauricio García Duran
5. India - MacroViolence and MicroResistance: Development Violence and Unarmed Grassroots Resistance by Anand Mazgaonkar
Section II: Nonviolent Citizens' Intervention Across Borders
6. Making Accompaniment Effective by Brian Martin
7. Developing Strategy for Accompaniment by Luis Enrique Eguren
7a. With Peace Brigades International in Colombia by Louise Winstanley
8. Civilian Peacekeeping: Providing Protection without sticks and carrots by Christine Schweitzer
8a. Making Peace Practical with Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka by Rita Webb
9. Cross-border Nonviolent Advocacy during the second Palestinian intifada: the International Solidarity Movement by Véronique Dudouet
9a. The work of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI)
by Ann Wright
9b. International Women's Peace Service in Palestine by Angie Zelter
10. Voices in the Wilderness: Campaigning against Sanctions on Iraq 1995-2005 by Kathy Kelly and Milan Raid
Section III: Bases of Solidarity: Shared Identities, Interests and Beliefs
11. Feminist solidarity: Women in Black against War by Cynthia Cockburn
12. Transnational solidarity and war resistance: the case of Turkey by Andreas Speck
13. Solidarity based on Sexual Orientation: Regional Organising in Africa by Chesterfield Samba
14. Diasporas: potential partners in struggle by Andrew Rigby
15. Global Movements and Local Struggles: The Case of World Social Forum by Stellan Vinthagen
16. Worker Solidarity and Civil Society cooperation: blocking the Chinese arms shipment to Zimbabwe, April 2008
Section IV: Controversies in transnational action
17. External Financing of Opposition Movements by Jorgen Johansen
18. Nonviolence Training and Charges of Western Imperialism: a Guide for Worried Activists by George Lakey
Afterword: the Chain of Nonviolence by Howard Clark
Works Cited
Index