I skimmed the first 6 pages here: https://web.stanford.edu/group/peacejustice/Gelderloos-Failure-of-Nonviolence.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/peacejustice/

I skimmed the first 6 pages here: https://web.stanford.edu/group/peacejustice/Gelderloos-Failure-of-Nonviolence.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/group/peacejustice/Gelderloos-Failu... It seems he's arguing that a diversity of tactics is more effective than nonviolence alone. Chenoweth's methodology if I understand correctly was to divide a lot of civil resistance campaigns into violent and nonviolent, and compare the success of the two groupings. It's possible that they're both right, that a diversity of tactics wins, but is more likely to win when that diversity is skewed toward nonviolence.