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      Nonviolent resistance movements are more likely to facilitate transitions from autocracy to democracy, improve democratic qualities like civil liberties, transform security forces and judicial systems in rights-respecting directions, and enhance well-being measures such as life expectancy.

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2452292924000365

      The commonly held belief that most revolutions that have happened in dictatorial regimes were bloody or violent uprisings is not borne out by historical analysis.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_revolution

      Empirical evidence strongly favors strategic, organized nonviolent resistance as the most effective path to sustainable political change.

      Political assassinations are a tool of desperation. They’re effective at creating instability and further violence; counterproductive for achieving lasting political goals. They fail to eliminate the ideas, movements, and structures that person represented.