A Conversation on Leadership in Civil Resistance
Channel: ICNC - International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
Date: 28/06/2012

To give effective leadership to a civil resistance movement, an organizer must be able to strategically organize and plan, visualize a future that the movement wants to achieve, elicit sustained and value-driven participation, and effectively negotiate with disparate parts of a coalition for action, and with other institutions. The leader must articulate ideas and generate tactical actions that build the movement in order to shift perceived legitimacy from the current system to a new society sought by the people. Dean Deborah Winslow Nutter leads a discussion on leadership, based on these and other ideas, with two leaders of civil resistance: Czeslaw Bielecki of Poland, and Lhadon Tethong on behalf of Tibet.