ICNC wishes to commission a Special Report on civil resistance against democratic backsliding in South Korea, culminating in resistance to the declaration of martial law and the subsequent impeachment and removal from office of President Yoon Sook Yeol. The Report will gather and analyze detailed information about the dynamics of civil resistance in the South Korean context. The years of primary focus for the Report would be 2022-2025, but some background information about previous resistance to democratic backsliding from 2009 onward, and how it informed events from 2022 to 2025, may also be included.
Special Reports are written for a non-academic audience, but are held to high academic standards, undergoing double-blind peer review prior to publication.
For examples of past case studies in this series, see these reports on Sudan and Pakistan.
Read the full Request for Proposals.
Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis.
The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict welcomes the submission of presentation proposals for our Webinar Series on Civil Resistance. ICNC’s Webinars are a series of online individual and group presentations, combined with Q & A discussions with participants, on critical ideas, cases, and questions related to civil resistance and nonviolent movements. Webinars are streamed live and the recordings are posted on ICNC’s website for future viewing.
Webinars are delivered by selected scholars, educators and practitioners who research, study, teach or write about civil resistance, interact with activists or practice civil resistance.
Please see a list of topics for potential webinars that are of interest to ICNC.
ICNC offers a modest honorarium to webinar presenters that ranges between $200 to $400, depending on the number of presenters in a webinar and speakers' experience.
Our Webinars are intended for scholars, activists, organizers, educators, members of the media, policymakers, practitioners, and students. Since the series began in 2010 we have reached thousands of participants from around the world.
Visit the ICNC webinar page to view a full list of past webinar recordings.
Civil resistance is understood as a nonviolent struggle that civilians undertake using a range of nonviolent methods – including, but not limited to, marches, strikes, boycotts, noncooperation, civil disobedience, building alternative institutions – with the aim of winning human rights, establishing greater accountability, social justice, and more inclusive, nonviolent democratic spaces.