Nonviolent Interventions: A Case Study

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As a final point, I ask myself the following questions: how is possible that Milosevic had such popularity for years? What a dictator must have in order to captivate his followers? Are the needs of human beings to be addressed? or It is the human factor with hungry of power that dominates us? This case in particular, touches me closely because in my first home land “Venezuela” the same type of conflict is currently happening with Nicolas Maduro regime. I observed a lot of similarities as well as differences. I noticed as the majority of dictators in history, Milosevic created the myth that Serbia was a holy nation and must be defensed from the enemies. However, many Serbians became angry, hopelessness, and apathetic about the regime for leading Serbia into a war, a critical poverty and isolation. I have learned through the readings that success within a conflict is an impetuous determination of progress, and can be set at any point in the desire direction of change (Church & Rogers, 2006). I observed in this case, how young people, …show more content…
However, the strength for this practice is the arbitrary determination of their members to obtain a change and have the ability to identify what is wrong and what is the exact change they want it. Consequently, I consider the intervention of nonviolent requires a high level of nonviolent discipline, which is not easy when our country is invaded by a dictator that wants to impose himself and torture their citizens. I believe one of Otpor’ weakness was their disorganized actions in order to prevent the arrests; they mishandle their position in that aspect. Being a nonviolent resistance movement, they should to take into consideration the fact of physically protect themselves with helmets, bulletproof vest and so on. They should know that nonviolent movement awake in the opponent high controversy and high levels of physical