The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
www.bbc.com
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AntiFascistButterfly on 2025-06-13 02:19:48+00:00.

Original Title: TIL the 3.5% rule: 3.5% of a national population peacefully protesting on the streets at once will ALWAYS topple a Dictatorship or democratic government. Moreover peaceful movements succeed twice as often as violent ones. This surprised even the Harvard political scientist who discovered it.

  • twice_hatch@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    the presidents of Sudan and Algeria both announced they would step aside after decades in office

    Decades, huh? :/ I mean yeah I’ll certainly outlive Trump but I’d rather not wait on old age and heart disease to get him out of power

    I can’t find the text of their dissertation but this is a TedX talk they gave on the subject https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w