> […] protect themselves from the country (ie government). Non-violent civil resistance has greater odds of working than violent resistance. Over the last cen

> […] protect themselves from the country (ie government). Non-violent civil resistance has greater odds of working than violent resistance. Over the last century movements that used violence only succeeded about 25% of the time, and generally resulted in autocratic regimes when they did. Non-violent movements succeeded about twice as often, and generally resulted in non-autocratic systems afterwards (main exception probably being Iran). See the book Why civil resistance works by Chenoweth which does a review of the literature.