Maciej Bartkowski, senior director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, remembers Howard Clark as an effective collaborator and a scholar-practitioner with a distinct and nuanced approach to the field of nonviolent conflict.
This is one of two extracts from Howard Clark’s major study Civil Resistance in Kosovo (the other can be read here). Both are important reflections of Howard’s particular perspectives. They merit close reading alongside his article “The limits of prudence” (republished here).
Howard Clark discusses concepts of civil resistance and the misconceptions about strategic nonviolent action at an International Center for Nonviolent Conflict workshop in Istanbul, 2010.
Howard Clark discusses the cultural aspects of civil resistance, explores the relationship between civil resistance movements and violent radicals, and considers the civil resistance against Hitler, at an ICNC Academic Seminar at the Euro-Mediterranean University, 2010.
Howard Clark’s seminal work Civil Resistance in Kosovo, published in 2000, further refined his distinctive approach to nonviolent strategy, and his groundbreaking research into civil resistance in Kosovo: “Nonviolence in Kosovo was a strategic commitment.”
At a meeting of the Nonviolent Action Research Project on Thursday 13 March, 1997, Howard Clark talked about the campaign for self-determination in Kosovo/a. The issues raised in this talk were to be critical to his seminal work, Civil Resistance in Kosovo, published in 2000.
Howard Clark’s ideas on nonviolent strategy from 1978: how can the local victories of the anti-nuclear movement be strengthened in order to mount a serious structural challenge to the state’s commitment to nuclear power? Nonviolent anarchists must remind themselves of the failure of the civil diso
An informative guide to non-violent activism worldwide offers a valuable, positive resource through difficult times. It is also a tribute to the lifelong work of its co-editor, Howard Clark.
