A collection of case studies and lessons learned from around the world about confronting authoritarianism and organizing resistance.
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Authoritarianism
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
This handbook is designed to help scholars think about their own risk and purposefully choose actions in line with it.
What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Teaches about Resisting Authoritarianism
Here are seven lessons from the story by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, for movements resisting authoritarianism.
Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline
In the face of rising authoritarianism, what stories and tactics drive collaboration within and between movements?
Safeguarding Civic Space: Harnessing Narrative Change to Restore Public Trust in Civil Society Organisations
A guide to empower actors to defend and promote civic rights effectively, plus 10 practical lessons for proactive narrative change.
Resisting Authoritarianism
Resources to read, watch, and listen to collated and recommended by The Horizons Project and their partners about resisting authoritarianism.
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically says Yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
Fighting Back Against Authoritarianism in Brazil
How organisers at the communications lab, Quid, used powerful organising and digital strategies to build civic engagement and overcome the far right in Brazil.
2024 US Election: Where to Next?
A round up of some of the best articles and guides to help you process the 2024 US election outcome, consider options for moving forward, work with others, and take strategic action.
10 Ways to be Prepared and Grounded now Trump has Won
The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
Confronting Authoritarianism and Organizing Resistance: Case Studies and Lessons Learned
A collection of case studies and lessons learned from around the world about confronting authoritarianism and organizing resistance.
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
This handbook is designed to help scholars think about their own risk and purposefully choose actions in line with it.
What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Teaches about Resisting Authoritarianism
Here are seven lessons from the story by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale, for movements resisting authoritarianism.
Exploring Narrative Practices for Broad-based Movements in Contexts of Democratic Decline
In the face of rising authoritarianism, what stories and tactics drive collaboration within and between movements?
Safeguarding Civic Space: Harnessing Narrative Change to Restore Public Trust in Civil Society Organisations
A guide to empower actors to defend and promote civic rights effectively, plus 10 practical lessons for proactive narrative change.
Resisting Authoritarianism
Resources to read, watch, and listen to collated and recommended by The Horizons Project and their partners about resisting authoritarianism.
Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically says Yes
The Global Nonviolent Action Database details some 40 cases of mass movements overcoming tyrants through strategic nonviolent campaigns.
Fighting Back Against Authoritarianism in Brazil
How organisers at the communications lab, Quid, used powerful organising and digital strategies to build civic engagement and overcome the far right in Brazil.
2024 US Election: Where to Next?
A round up of some of the best articles and guides to help you process the 2024 US election outcome, consider options for moving forward, work with others, and take strategic action.
10 Ways to be Prepared and Grounded now Trump has Won
The key to taking effective action in a Trump world is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.