With so many of us now working from home, a key question we cover in this post is how to practice good security and best practices around privacy at home. At Tibet Action, our team works remotely, so we’ve learned a thing or two about building a foundation of security that relies on individuals rather...
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Live Online Briefing: Uncovering China’s Coronavirus Agenda
Online Briefing: Uncovering China’s Coronavirus Agenda: Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Chinese activists speak up WHAT: On World Health Day, Tuesday 7 April 2020, a panel of Chinese, Tibetan, and Uyghur rights leaders joined by Chinese-focused human rights experts conducted an online media briefing on the People’s Republic of China’s escalating repressive agenda in the age of...
Captain Boycott and the Tactic that Changed the World
[བོད་ཡིག] The boycott is one of the most well-known nonviolent resistance tactics, and it can also be one of the most powerful. To carry out a boycott, people don’t have to gather together in a single place or engage in high-risk actions. Due to the low risk involved, lots of people can take part, building...
How Does Nonviolent Change Happen?
To most people, the process by which change occurs is a great mystery that takes place inside the black box of politics. Most of the time, those pushing for political change recognize the important ingredients that go into the process and the outcome that results from it. But between the input of ingredients and the...
James Lawson Award Honors Four Resisters
Nathan Schneider, June 23, 2011 On June 23rd, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict presented its first James Lawson Award for Nonviolent Achievement—or, rather, awards. The ceremony took place over lunch in a multi-purpose room at Tufts University, midway through ICNC’s annual, week-long Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict. All four Lawson Award...