A dilemma action is a type of non-violent
civil disobedience
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called "civil". Hen ...
designed to create a "response dilemma" or "lose-lose" situation for public authorities "by forcing them to either concede some public space to protesters or make themselves look absurd or heavy-handed by acting against the protest."
[Laura Moth, ]Today's Zaman
''Today's Zaman'' (Zaman is Turkish for 'time' or 'age') was an English-language daily newspaper based in Turkey. Established on 17 January 2007, it was the English-language edition of the Turkish daily '' Zaman.'' ''Today's Zaman'' included dom ...
, 19 June 2013
A standing dilemma in Taksim
{dead link, date=September 2017 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes The Serbian-based NGO
Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies
The Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies (CANVAS) is a non-profit, non-governmental, educational institution focused on the use of nonviolent conflict, based in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 2004 by Srđa Popović (activist), ...
has extensively used the technique in its trainings to nonviolent civil resistors.
Examples of dilemma actions include
Ai Weiwei's gathering to eat pig's trotters, the Standing protests of the
2013 protests in Turkey
A wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey began on 28 May 2013, initially to contest the urban development plan for Istanbul's Taksim Gezi Park. The protests were sparked by outrage at the violent eviction of a sit-in at the park prote ...
,
[ the ]Gaza Freedom Flotilla
The Gaza Freedom Flotilla, organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), was carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials, with the intention of breaking ...
[wri-irg.org, 5 March 2013]
Freedom Flotilla to Gaza – a dilemma action evolves
/ref> and Uganda's 2011 Walk to Work protests.Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...
, 28 April 2011
Uganda walk-to-work protests kick up dust
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See also
* Dilemma (confrontation analysis)
Confrontation analysis (also known as dilemma analysis) is an operational analysis technique used to structure, understand and think through multi-party interactions such as negotiations. It is the underpinning mathematical basis of drama theory.
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Further reading
* George Lakey, ''Powerful Peacemaking: A Strategy for a Living Revolution'' (Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1987 973.
* Srdja Popovic, Andrej Milovojevic, and Slobodan Djinovic, ''Nonviolent Struggle: 50 Crucial Points'', 2d ed. (Belgrade: Center for Applied Non Violent Action and Strategies, 2007), 70–71.
* Philippe Duhamel, ''The Dilemma Demonstration: Using Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to Put the Government between a Rock and a Hard Place'' (Minneapolis, MN: Center for Victims of Torture, 2004).
References
Civil disobedience