The Nonviolent Action Lab at Harvard Kennedy School‘s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation—one of the two institutional pillars of this project, along with the University of Connecticut—dropped the first two episodes of its new podcast earlier this month. As the we say in the promo blurb:
The Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings you the latest research, insights, and ideas on how nonviolent action can — or sometimes fails — to transform injustice. Each week we welcome experts from the field, scholars, organizers, and advocates to discuss nonviolent movements around the world.
You can listen and subscribe via Simplecast.
Episode 1 features a conversation between Lab director Dean/Prof. Erica Chenoweth and me about what the Lab does, how we’re hoping to grow that work, and some of the trends Erica sees in nonviolent resistance and democratization around the world right now.
In Episode 2, I talk with Prof. Désirée Weber from the College of Wooster about the long-running Black Lives Matter demonstrations she helped organize there after George Floyd’s murder and the effects those demonstrations had on local policing and the participants themselves.
Episode 3 should land soon. It will feature an interview I recently did with two organizers of a cycle of walks and demonstrations outside the D.C.-area homes of U.S. Supreme Court justices that ran for most of 2022 after Politico published the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
While we’ve mostly focused so far on U.S. activism, future episodes will look at movements in other parts of the world as well, and lessons that scholars and activists can learn from them.
You know the drill: please listen, like, and subscribe!
