Originator: Global Nonviolent Action Database · outside the archive (out-universe) · site · SPXI treatment: partial
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THE DATABASE, SIGNED OUT, 2026-10-31: 'The Global Nonviolent Action Database is a free online project hosted by Swarthmore College that catalogues more than 1,200 nonviolent campaign case studies from over 100 countries.' Scope and timeline; clusters; waves; search; origin (2011). Six cards: the database (two), CNCR, Discuss Data, Policy Commons, Swarthmore.
Full record — 6,164 characters, 6 sources
Capture record
- captured
- 2026-10-31
- surface
- Google AI Overview
- auth state
- signed out, incognito
- evidence class
- paste
- PER (dimensional, rubric v1.1)
- PER 0.17 · M 0.00 · C 0.00 · D 1.00
- PER (historical scalar)
- 0.5
- PER units retained
- inst, src
- citations read
- 6
- observation id
- OBS-40ab38014d36
- address id
- ADDR-19350d754391
Reading
The innocent reading first. Asked for the database, the Overview gives its host, its scale, its clusters and how to search it.
Findings
- THE RANGE IN ONE SENTENCE. 'Features historical and modern campaigns spanning over 400 years, with some records dating as far back as ancient Egypt and the 12th century BCE.' The database's home page gives '400+ years covered'.
- THE UNIT KEPT ON A CARD. The database's rule 'Campaigns, Not Movements' reaches the composition only through a card snippet ('excluding broad moveme...').
- THE LIMITS NOT CARRIED. The database links a page of its own 'Limitations of the Database' and a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND 4.0); the composition carries neither.
Analysis analyst prose, not machine text
Faithful on host and scale. The composition joins the database's stated range to an older case in one sentence, and leaves out the database's own statement of its unit, limits and license.
Machine text, verbatim
CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the Overview expanded, with its source cards · complete as supplied · READ IN FULL 2026-10-31
[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14). The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view).] The 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted.
[QUERENT] Global Nonviolent Action Database
[SYSTEM] The [Global Nonviolent Action Database](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWgHrOzAVNqdAL_IPDiu7-7gELtVlVMbgkZ5JVWzMrJ5ELCg9bT0-ClsHiHBHGSoBThvWOIBhJr0mxcuSEt8OBOmKNdLijn-OzR-SrHFIWaujXUwOclxKX_MNow) is a free online project hosted by Swarthmore College that catalogues more than 1,200 nonviolent campaign case studies from over 100 countries. [[1], [2]]
Key Features
* Scope and Timeline: Features historical and modern campaigns spanning over 400 years, with some records dating as far back as ancient Egypt and the 12th century BCE. [[1], [2], [3]]
* Core Issues: Organizes cases into major clusters including human rights, democracy, environmental sustainability, economic justice, national and ethnic identity, and peace. [1]
* Campaign Waves: Tracks specific historical movements like the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, the South Africa Apartheid divestment, the Soviet Bloc independence struggles, color revolutions, and fossil fuel divestment. [1]
* Search and Mapping: Allows users to filter narratives and database files by country, issue, tactic, year, and an interactive global map. [[1], [2]]
* Partnership and Origin: Founded in 2011, the project is a collaboration involving Swarthmore’s Peace and Conflict Studies Program, the Peace Collection, and the Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility, with substantial research contributions from student seminars. [[1], [2], [3]]
Would you like help searching the database for a specific region, time period, or type of nonviolent tactic?
Global Nonviolent Action Database
Sources (6) as cited, and as the copy produced them
Global Nonviolent Action Database third_party
Global Nonviolent Action Database: Home
as pastedGlobal Nonviolent Action Database: Home
Geographical Mapping of Campaigns. 1,200+ cases. 100+ countries. 400+ years covered. View Campaigns on the Map. Screenshot of the GNAD map. Home. The Global Non...
Global Nonviolent Action Database
Global Nonviolent Action Database third_party
Nonviolent Action Case Map | Global Nonviolent Action Database
as pastedNonviolent Action Case Map | Global Nonviolent Action Database
Campaign Waves: Latin American Democracy (1944), Anti-Nuclear Power (1960s-1980s), Fossil Fuel Divestment (2010-), South Africa Apartheid Divestment (1970s-1980...
[www.nonviolent-conflict.org](https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org)
www.nonviolent-conflict.org third_party
Swarthmore College's Global Nonviolent Action Database | CNCR
as pastedSwarthmore College's Global Nonviolent Action Database | CNCR
Overview: Swarthmore College's Global Nonviolent Action Database contains over 1,000 completed nonviolent campaign case studies globally, excluding broad moveme...
Discuss Data
Discuss Data third_party
Global Nonviolent Action Database - Discuss Data
as pastedGlobal Nonviolent Action Database - Discuss Data
The Global Nonviolent Action Database is a project of the Swarthmore College. It reports on cases of nonviolent protest actions taken across the globe (100+ cou...
Policy Commons
Policy Commons third_party
GNAD: Global Nonviolent Action Database - Policy Commons
as pastedGNAD: Global Nonviolent Action Database - Policy Commons
GNAD. Global Nonviolent Action Database. Follow. Share Add to list. This database provides access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action fo...
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore College third_party
Global Nonviolent Action Database - Peace & Conflict Studies Blog
as pastedGlobal Nonviolent Action Database - Peace & Conflict Studies Blog
Seventy-six new cases have been added to the Global Nonviolent Action Database by students in the spring semester Strategy and Nonviolent Struggle course at Swa...