Where are significant nonviolent conflicts happening in the world today?
There are several active nonviolent conflicts and nascent civilian-based movements that may lead to regime changes, new democracies and greater social justice for tens of millions of people. The Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is leading a longtime nonviolent movement against the brutal military dictatorship in Burma. Nonviolent, pro-democracy forces opposed to the authoritarian ruler of Zimbabwe, Roberto Mugabe, are making business as usual impossible for his regime. Nonviolent resistance to the Chinese occupation of Tibet continues to endure in that mountain-ringed land. Democratic opposition groups in Belarus and Ukraine are gathering strength for new challenges to the repressive rulers of those nations. A number of courageous Palestinian civilians are trying to shift the resistance to Israeli occupation to nonviolent mobilization. Student protesters and other civilian dissidents in Iran continue to stage periodic mass nonviolent demonstrations against the arbitrary cleric
