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Selected Publications List

Policy Papers and Reports:

 

Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave: A Playbook for Countering the Authoritarian Threat
by Hardy Merriman, Patrick Quirk, and Ash Jain, The Atlantic Council, 2023

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Preventing Mass Atrocities: From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance
by Peter Ackerman and Hardy Merriman, ICNC Press, 2019
Translations
Arabic | English | French | Spanish

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• French: Amazon (US) | Amazon (France)
• Spanish: Amazon

Policy Papers and Reports:

 

Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave: A Playbook for Countering the Authoritarian Threat
by Hardy Merriman, Patrick Quirk, and Ash Jain, The Atlantic Council, 2023

Purchase
• English: Bookshop.org | Amazon

Watch the Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave promotion video.

 

Preventing Mass Atrocities: From a Responsibility to Protect (RtoP) to a Right to Assist (RtoA) Campaigns of Civil Resistance
by Peter Ackerman and Hardy Merriman, ICNC Press, 2019
Translations
Arabic | English | French | Spanish

Purchase

• English: bookshop.org | Amazon
• French: Amazon (US) | Amazon (France)
• Spanish: Amazon

Book:

 

Glossary of Civil Resistance: A Resource for Study and Translation of Key Terms
by Hardy Merriman and Nicola Barrach-Yousefi, ICNC Press, 2021

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Related:

Book:

 

Glossary of Civil Resistance: A Resource for Study and Translation of Key Terms
by Hardy Merriman and Nicola Barrach-Yousefi, ICNC Press, 2021

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Related:

Organizing and Training Manuals:

 

Harnessing Our Power to End (HOPE) Political Violence
by Hardy Merriman, 22nd Century Initiative and the Horizons Project, 2024

 

 

 

Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy
by Hardy Merriman, Ankur Asthana, Marium Navid, and Kifah Shah, 2020

 

 

 

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle
by Srdja Popovic, Slobodan Djinovic, Andrej Milivojevic, Hardy Merriman, and Ivan Marovic, Belgrade, Serbia: Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), 2007
Translations
Arabic | Chinese | Farsi | Slovak

Organizing and Training Manuals:

 

Harnessing Our Power to End (HOPE) Political Violence
by Hardy Merriman, 22nd Century Initiative and the Horizons Project, 2024

 

 

 

Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy
by Hardy Merriman, Ankur Asthana, Marium Navid, and Kifah Shah, 2020

 

 

 

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle
by Srdja Popovic, Slobodan Djinovic, Andrej Milivojevic, Hardy Merriman, and Ivan Marovic, Belgrade, Serbia: Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), 2007
Translations
Arabic | Chinese | Farsi | Slovak

Organizing and Training Manuals:

 

Harnessing Our Power to End (HOPE) Political Violence
by Hardy Merriman, 22nd Century Initiative and the Horizons Project, 2024

 

 

 

Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy
by Hardy Merriman, Ankur Asthana, Marium Navid, and Kifah Shah, 2020

 

 

 

CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle
by Srdja Popovic, Slobodan Djinovic, Andrej Milivojevic, Hardy Merriman, and Ivan Marovic, Belgrade, Serbia: Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), 2007
Translations
Arabic | Chinese | Farsi | Slovak

Long-form essay:

 

We Need People Power to Address a World in Peril: A Framing Essay for the 2023 Copenhagen People Power Conference
by Hardy Merriman, ICNC Press, 2023

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Le pouvoir du peuple dans un monde en péril (We Need People Power to Address a World in Peril)
by Hardy Merman, ICNC Press, 2024

Literature Reviews:

 

Civil Resistance
by Hardy Merriman, in Nukhet Sandal (ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, Oxford University Press, 2023

 

Civil Resistance
by Maciej J. Bartkowski and Hardy Merriman, in Patrick James (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, Oxford University Press, 2016

 

Nonviolent Struggle
by Stephen Zunes, Hardy Merriman, and Maria J. Stephan, in Robert A. Denemark (ed.), The International Studies Encyclopedia, Volume VIII, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2010. Updated in June 2015.
Republished in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies (a co-publication of the International Studies Association and Oxford University Press), 2018

Chapters:

 

The Checklist for Ending Tyranny
by Peter Ackerman and Hardy Merriman, in Mathew Burrows and Maria J. Stephan (eds.), Is Authoritarianism Staging a Comeback?, Washington, DC: The Atlantic Council, 2015
Translations
Arabic | Bahasa Indonesia | Bangla | Burmese | Chinese | Creole (Haitian) | Farsi | French | Georgian | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Kannada | Khmer | Malayalam | Nepali | Polish | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Portuguese (Continental)| Russian | Sindhi | Spanish | Swahili | Tagalog | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Turkish | Urdu | Vietnamese

 

Theory and Dynamics of Civil Resistance
by Hardy Merriman, in Maria Stephan (ed.), Civil Resistance in the Middle East: Popular Struggle, Democratization, and Governance, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

 

Dissolving Terrorism at Its Roots
by Hardy Merriman and Jack DuVall, in Ralph Summy and Senthil Ram (eds.), Nonviolence: An Alternative for Countering Global Terror(ism), Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007

 

California Grape Workers’ Strike and Boycott–1965-1970
by Hardy Merriman, in Gene Sharp, Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential, Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 2005

Articles and short publications:

 

Popular Nonviolent Means Drive Democratic Change
by Hardy Merriman, China Journal of Democracy, Vol. 2, Issue 2, 2024
PDF

 

A decade of support to pro-democracy and human rights movements: Trends and lessons learned
by Hardy Merriman, European Endowment for Democracy, 2024
PDF | HTML

 

How the Russian people can end Putin's war
by Hardy Merriman and Stephen Crowley, The Hill, March 24, 2022

 

Movement Building and Civil Resistance: Key Resources for Movement Organizers
by Hardy Merriman, Korbel Quickfacts of Peace and Security, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, December 2016

 

 

The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline
by Hardy Merriman, openDemocracy.net (online), November 19, 2010
Translations
Amharic | Arabic | Bahasa Indonesia | Bangla | Chinese: version 1, version 2 | Creole (Haitian) | Crimean Tatar | Farsi | French | Georgian | Hebrew | Hindi | Hungarian | Kannada | Khmer | Kirundi | Kyrgyz | Malayalam | Nepali | Polish | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Portuguese (Continental) | Russian | Slovak | Spanish | Swahili | Tagalog | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Turkish: version 1, version 2 | Urdu | Vietnamese | Xhosa

 

Civil Resistance: A First Look
(Uncredited. I wrote over 65% of this booklet)
International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, 2010
Translations
Amharic | Arabic | Bahasa Indonesia | Bangla | Chinese | Creole (Haitian) | French | Hindi | Hungarian | Kannada | Khmer | Kirundi | Kituba | Lingala | Malayalam | Nepali | Pashto | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Portuguese (Continental) | Russian | Slovak | Spanish | Swahili | Tagalog | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Urdu

 

Mauritania’s Coup is a Setback for Democracy
by Stephen Zunes and Hardy Merriman, National Catholic Reporter, October 3, 2008

 

Agents of Change and Nonviolent Action
by Hardy Merriman, Conservation Biology, Volume 22, No. 2, April 2008
Translations
Amharic | Bahasa Indonesia | Bangla | Chinese | French | Georgian | Hindi | Hungarian | Kannada | Malayalam | Nepali | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Portuguese (Continental) | Russian | Sindhi | Spanish | Tagalog | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Turkish | Urdu

Other Writing and Translations:

 

Introduction to the Second Edition of The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns
by Ivan Marovic, ICNC Press, 2021.
Translation
Hungarian | Polish | Vietnamese

 

Introduction to Training Manual for Nonviolent Defense Against the Coup d'État
by Richard K. Taylor, Washington, DC: Nonviolence International, 2011
Translation
Spanish

 

"Costs and Risks in Nonviolent Conflict" presentation
Webinar for the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, September 23, 2010
Translation
Chinese

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