Jamila Raqib: The secret to effective nonviolent resistance
Jamila Raqib: El secreto de una eficaz resistencia no violenta
Jamila Raqib works on pragmatic approaches to nonviolent action for activists, human rights organizations, academics and governments globally. Full bio
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since I can remember.
parte de mi vida.
de la invasión soviética,
just six months after the Soviets invaded,
to understand what was happening,
para entender lo que estaba sucediendo,
and the fear around me.
y el miedo a mi alrededor.
on how I now think about war and conflict.
tuvieron un gran impacto
sobre la guerra y el conflicto.
have a fundamental issue at stake,
algo fundamental en juego,
ceder no es una opción.
las personas y se ocupan países,
to resist and to fight back.
para resistir y contraatacar.
and terrible violence is,
es la violencia,
se pondrá en práctica.
with the level of violence in the world.
en el mundo preocupa a la mayoría,
that violence is morally wrong.
que es moralmente incorrecto,
and as effective as violence.
y eficaz como la violencia misma.
situations around the world
más difíciles de todo el mundo
struggle to conduct conflict.
para hacer frente a los conflictos.
with Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
con Gandhi y Martin Luther King,
nonviolent action for thousands of years.
se usa desde hace miles de años.
that we have today in this country --
que nos brinda este país hoy en día
orientaciones sexuales
with the environment --
en el medio ambiente,
lucharon y se sacrificaron por ellos.
who fought for them
from this history,
is widely misunderstood.
no es debidamente comprendida.
of Ethiopian activists,
de activistas etíopes
that I hear a lot.
tried nonviolent action,
la acción no violenta pero no funcionó.
and that was the end of that.
a todos y así acabo todo.
is equivalent to street protests
se reduce a la protesta callejera
way to show that people want change,
claro de que la gente quiere cambio,
actually create change --
people what they want
a la gente lo que quiere
by destroying an opponent,
para destruir al oponente,
that an opponent needs to survive,
que necesita para sobrevivir,
those sources of power.
pueden neutralizar al ejército
can neutralize the military
through strikes and boycotts.
con huelgas y boicots
government propaganda
la propaganda del gobierno
comunicación alternativos.
that can be used to do this.
alternativos para hacer esto.
of nonviolent action.
de acción no violenta.
by corrupt former military officials
por exmilitares corruptos
al crimen organizado.
to do anything about it --
no podía hacer nada al respecto
just 12 regular people,
12 personas normales y corrientes,
to their friends
holding signs with a message:
con carteles y con un mensaje:
as protests spread throughout the country.
por todo el país.
to various government buildings
cientos de huevos
del gobierno con el mensaje:
pueden tomar prestado los nuestros".
from running for office,
that they couldn't just keep protesting
seguir protestando
the country refused to work.
se negó a trabajar.
and schools shut their doors.
cerraron sus puertas.
bloquearon las carreteras principales.
blocked major roads.
del gobierno, tuvieron que renunciar.
government officials,
of people using nonviolent action
que usaron la acción no violenta
un grupo de activistas ugandeses
los cerdos en la calle.
la confusión de la policía
are confused about what to do with them.
qué hacer con ellos.
the color of the ruling party.
en el color del partido en el poder
are getting better at grabbing headlines,
aprenden a acaparar titulares,
no dan para mucho
estrategia más amplia.
con sus tropas a la batalla
his troops into battle
nonviolent movements operate.
movimientos no violentos del mundo.
as military warfare,
como la guerra militar, o más.
and have clear objectives,
entrenados y tener claros los objetivos,
of how to achieve those objectives.
para alcanzar dichos objetivos.
desarrollándose a largo de miles de años
over thousands of years
dedicated to understanding
y la mejora de su funcionamiento.
is rarely systematically studied,
es poco estudiada de manera sistemática
de interesados está creciendo,
in the world who are teaching it.
en el mundo que la enseñan.
approaches of dealing with conflict
para tratar con el conflicto son obsoletos
challenges that we're facing.
a los que nos enfrentamos.
admitió recientemente
in its war against ISIS.
en su guerra contra ISIS.
using nonviolent action.
a través de acciones no violentas.
en junio de 2014,
de estudios de la escuela pública
in place a new public school curriculum,
su propia ideología extremista.
se negaron a enviarlos.
homeschool their children
educar en casa a sus hijos
a un lavado de cerebro.
of just one act of defiance
un solo acto de desafío
of nonviolent resistance
de resistencia no violenta
was part of a larger strategy
de una estrategia más amplia
that ISIS needs to function;
que necesita ISIS para funcionar?
necesaria para producir alimentos;
to extract and refine oil;
extraer y refinar el petróleo;
and communications networks
y las redes de comunicación,
that ISIS relies on?
en las que ISIS se basa.
to imagine defeating ISIS
the way we think about conflict
nuestra visión sobre qué es el conflicto
para hacerle frente.
que vale la pena difundir:
nonviolent action has worked
qué acciones no violentas funcionan
systems and technologies
otros sistemas y tecnologías
to better meet human needs.
las necesidades humanas.
nonviolent action
la acción no violenta de manera
used in place of war.
como alternativa a la guerra.
could then be abandoned
conflicto podría entonces desecharse
con los arcos y las flechas
with weapons that are more effective.
por armas más eficaces.
nonviolent struggle more powerful
podemos darle a la lucha no violenta
technologies of war.
tecnologías de guerra.
lies not in condemning violence
no reside en condenar la violencia
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jamila Raqib - PeacemakerJamila Raqib works on pragmatic approaches to nonviolent action for activists, human rights organizations, academics and governments globally.
Why you should listen
Jamila Raqib is the executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution, which promotes the study and strategic use of nonviolent action worldwide. Since 2002, she has worked closely with Dr. Gene Sharp, the world's foremost scholar on strategic nonviolent action. Together, they developed a curriculum titled Self-Liberation: A Guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship or Other Oppression. The publication is intended to provide in-depth guidance for planning a strategic nonviolent struggle.
Raqib represents the Institution at a number of domestic and international forums such as the Oslo Freedom Forum and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Her work centers on presenting a pragmatic approach to nonviolent action to activists, human rights organizations, academics and governments. She travels throughout the world conducting consultations and workshops for individuals and groups seeking to achieve diverse goals such as opposing dictatorship, combatting corruption, attaining political rights, economic justice, environmental protection and women's empowerment.
She holds a B.A. in Management from Simmons College in Boston, MA, and is a Research Affiliate of the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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