Monday, 18 November 2019

Legacies of 1989 for dissent today

an article by Barbara J. Falk (Canadian Foreces College Toronto) published in Eurozine

What are the legacies of dissent, thirty years after 1989?

Two places to look are the 2011 Arab Spring and Armenia’s revolts in 2018. They both teach different lessons about establishing the interpersonal conditions for successful non-violent rebellions and restoring social trust in an illiberal age when authoritarians use ‘hybrid warfare’ tactics to disrupt democracies from the inside.

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