When choosing search terms, try to identify the most unique words that are likely to appear in a written document on your topic.
Here is a list of terms that appear frequently on the Global Nonviolent Action Database. You might want to try using some of these terms while researching cases.
- Protest
- Demonstration
- Campaign
- Struggle
- Occupy
- Strike
- Work stoppage
- Boycott
- Organize
- March
- Picket (as in picket line)
- Resist(ance)
- Overthrow
- Sit-in
- Movement
- Rally
What other words could describe the case(s) you're researching? What words might a participant use? A sympathetic journalist? A scholar?
What about a less sympathetic journalist? A company spokesperson? An opponent?
Are there culturally-specific or movement-specific terms that would be used by the activists you're researching?
