Articles by Mark Engler and Paul Engler

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How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision while Winning Practical Reforms
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022

12 Apr 2022 – Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.

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Gandhi’s Strategy for Success — Use More Than One Strategy
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2017

How creating a healthy “ecology of change,” as Gandhi did in India, can help propel social movements.

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What Makes Nonviolent Movements Explode?
Mark Engler and Paul Engler – Common Dreams, 15 Dec 2014

Why are some protests ignored and forgotten while others explode, dominating the news cycle for weeks and becoming touchstones in political life? For all of those seeking to promote change, this is a critical question. And it was a particularly pressing concern after the financial meltdown of 2008.

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Did Nonviolence Fail in Egypt?
Mark Engler and Paul Engler – Foreign Policy In Focus, 10 Mar 2014

The Egyptian Revolution is a perfect case study for both the power and the limits of nonviolent mass movements.

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