A Force More Powerful

For this blog, I will be viewing and discussing the PBS documentary titled "A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict."

According to the official documentary website, "A Force More Powerful explores how popular movements battled entrenched regimes and military forces with unconventional weapons like boycotts, strikes, and demonstrations. Acts of civil resistance helped subvert the operations of government, and direct intervention in the form of sit-ins, nonviolent sabotage, and blockades frustrated many rulers' efforts to suppress people. The historical results were massive: tyrants toppled, governments overthrown, occupying armies impeded, and political systems shattered. Entire societies were transformed, suddenly or gradually, as nonviolent resistance destroyed the repressor's ability to control events."

 For educational purposes, I will also be including links, pictures and videos to support and enhance the theories I discuss. The documentary I found and viewed was the educational version, which is split into 6 episodes, each 32 minutes. Both documentaries are still the same; the educational version is just split up more than the home version. In the following posts, I will address the main points of each episode, taking at the end a comparative look at each nonviolent approach explaining why I felt some were effective and some were not.

I hope you enjoy the upcoming entries on nonviolence and nonviolent resistance!


photo courtesy of: aforcemorepowerful.org 

This site is for Ohio University's T3 480M class on Gandhi and King: Nonviolence as Philosophy and Strategy taught by Professor Michael J. Nojeim, Summer 2010. There is no attempt to infringe on any copyright laws and credit is given to the film and website for any quotes, pictures or video used from "A Force More Powerful: A century of nonviolent resistance."