Hence to power in relation to - in relation to our goals and to the dominant power relationships. However, whatever validity these classic answers retain, they are too sweeping to meet the needs of most movements. Major social change is rarely achieved so simply. There is also the opposite danger, of failing to recognise successes. If a movement's ultimate goal has yet to be gained, this does not mean that nothing has been achieved.
Strategy needs to mark off subsidiary goals, steps in a process of change.
Movements also should be aware of the gap in time that usually separates an action from evidence of its impact. Movements may have declined by the time they are closest to reaching their goals. A central role for organisations such as War Resisters' International and a paper such as Peace News is to reveal to ourselves and each other the sources and extent of such nonviolent power - from personal through group to the social level. And there can be few criteria more important for evaluating a nonviolent movement than our effectiveness in unleashing the nonviolent potential in our societies.