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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Case Studies and Organization of the Book -- Part one: Sierra Leone -- Part two: Liberia -- Part three: Kenya -- 1. Resisting Repression without Violence -- Individual Activism -- Resistance in Abeyance: Organization without Organizations -- From Abeyance to Formally Organized Resistance -- Resistance without "Opportunity" -- Broader, More Fluid Participation in Resistance -- Establishing a Culture of Resistance -- New Universal Model for Social Movements -- Theoretical Implications -- Structure and Resistance -- Motives of Activists -- Part one - Sierra Leone -- 2. Students Shake the Pillars of Power -- Roots of Resistance -- Rebirth of Resistance -- "Opportunity?" -- Phase I: Student Resistance -- The Power of Small Groups -- Regime Repression Stimulates more Resistance -- Resistance Impact -- Civil Society Fails to Support Protesting Students -- Phase II: Political Shape Shift: A "War" of Words -- The Cost of Resisting Repression with Words -- Refusing to Flee -- Independent Journalist Escapes Arrest by Jumping out a Window -- Press Dynamited -- Phase III: Radical Activism: From Seeking Regime Reform to Regime Change -- Training for Revolution -- Implications of an Informal Resistance -- 3. Women Help Restore Democracy -- A Modern David Uses Words, not Stones -- Tracking Resistance via Energy and Ideas, not just Social Movement Organizations -- Motives of Activists -- Deepening a Culture of Resistance: Civil Society Re-emerges -- Military Abuses -- Birth of a Social Movement: Women Lead the Charge for Regime Change -- Growing Civil Society Opposition to Military Rule -- National Conferences: "The Military Realized Late We Were Serious" -- Market Women v. the Military: The story of two Maries -- Implications of a Successful Nonviolent Resistance to a Military Junta