There are many moving parts and variable to every protest, and as one of the most powerful tools the general public possesses against oppressive power, it is important to evalutate what makes some protests succeed and others fail. In this website we will explore some of the factors surrounding protests all around the world.
Before getting into the gritty details of protesting, it can be useful to take a step back and get a sense of what the big picture of protesting has become in the last eighty years, in terms of locations and time scale. Below is a chart showing the lengths of protest around the world from 1945.
To expand the general view of protests through the last eighty years we do unfortunatley have to take into account deaths directly associated with these protests. The graph below associates fatalities with the country the protest was taking place in.
Beginning to look into the details of these protests, the reson for protesting is probably the most important detail. below is a graph relating the precent success of certain types of incentives for protesting.
It may seem obvious, but from the data collected there is a strong correlation between a larger protesting group and a larger chance of that protest succeeding. Interestingly though, there does seem to be a plateau between 100,000 and 1,000,000 participants.
The following visualization compares internal conflicts within the proest to their following success rates.
When evaluating protests it is also important to consider violence and repression and how they related to one another. In the following visualization it is show how often certain aspects of violence and/or repression occured during a protest.
Diversity in a protesting group often is a good thing, but it can also lead to additional conflict. Below is a visualization of how diversity (or no diversity) led to conflist in some protests.
In conclusion, there is no perfect way to protest and no way to absolutely guarantee that a group of people will get what they desire, but but examining data from thousands of protests from around the world over the past eighty years one can come to their own conclusions geographically and socially on what was effective and counterprodutive in the protesting world.