No matter how big they are, protests alone do not create political change. They must be nurtured into something more enduring: a movement. Movements are neither protests nor organizations.
Ivan Marovic cut his teeth as a student activist in Serbia in the 1990s and as a leader of the Optor movement that brought down Slobodan Milosevic. Since then, he has worked with dissidents and movements all over the world. In this episode of “Transnational Trends in Citizenship”—the new season of Order from Ashes—Marovic talks about the importance of skill-building for movements.
Unlike many other factors that affect movements, skill-building is something that can be controlled. The skills of organizing, communicating, strategic planning, and tactical innovation must be nurtured at the grassroots level. This is all the more crucial in authoritarian settings where crackdowns seek to break any civil society networks and may seek to eliminate leadership. Marovic emphasizes the importance for movements of learning, self-reflection, and time spent together.
This podcast is part of “Transnational Trends in Citizenship: Authoritarianism and the Emerging Global Culture of Resistance,” a TCF project supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Open Society Foundations.
Participants:
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How Is the Gaza War Affecting the Middle East?
Aid That Backfires
Shia Power: Sectarian Prejudice
Shia Power: Iraq’s Nationalist Revolutionaries
Shia Power: Do Clerics Still Have Authority?
Shia Power: What’s an Islamist?
Facing Iraq’s Climate Catastrophe
Lebanon’s Botched Economic Rescue
Power and Power in Lebanon
A Tale of Two Border Towns
Broken Bonds: Quitting the Brotherhood
Broken Bonds: Leaders without Legitimacy
Broken Bonds: No Identity
Broken Bonds: Existential Crises
Broken Bonds: My Life as a Muslim Brother
The Earthquake, Cholera, and Borders
Iraq’s Heist of the Century
Progressive Policy: Shrinking America’s Military Footprint
Progressive Policy: Replacing the War on Terror
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