Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave
Freedom and Prosperity Center
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15-Feb-2024
Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave is a joint project between the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC), aimed at catalyzing support for nonviolent pro-democracy movements fighting against authoritarian rule.
The project recognizes that civil resistance movements—using tactics such as strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and a range of other nonviolent tactics—are one of the most powerful forces for democracy worldwide and therefore central to reversing the last seventeen years of democratic recession.
The project produced a three-part report, titled Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave: A Playbook for Countering the Authoritarian Threat, that:
1. Proposes new approaches and tools to support civil resistance movements
2. Advances a new international norm — the “Right to Assist” pro-democracy movements
3. Develops strategic and tactical options to constrain authoritarian regimes and drive up the cost of their repression
The full playbook can be found here. Learn more about the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security by visiting https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/programs/scowcroft-center-for-strategy-and-security/
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 02/15/2024
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