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* the [[2014 Hong Kong protests]], also known as "Occupy Central" and the "Umbrella movement". opposing the [[2014–15 Hong Kong electoral reform]] in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
 
Numerous other campaigns, both successful and unsuccessful, could be included in a longer listing. In 1967 [[Gene Sharp]] produced a list of 84 cases.<ref>[[Gene Sharp]], "The Technique of Non-violent Action", in Adam Roberts (ed.), ''The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression'', Faber, London, 1967, at pp. 98–104.</ref> He has followed this with further surveys.<ref>See for example his discussion of "Illustrations from the Past" in Gene Sharp, ''[[The Politics of Nonviolent Action]]'' (see [[The Politics of Nonviolent Action|article]]), Porter Sargent, Boston, 1973, pp. 75–97; and his short accounts of numerous cases in Gene Sharp and others, ''Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential'', Porter Sargent, Boston, 2005, pp. 69–356.</ref> In 2013 Maciej Bartkowski authored a long list of cases in the past 200 years, arranged alphabetically by country.<ref>"Appendix: Conflict Summaries", in Maciej J. Bartkowski (ed.), ''Recovering Nonviolent History: Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles'', Lynne Rienner, Boulder, Colorado, 2013, pp. 355– 405355–405.</ref>
 
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