https://academic.oup.com/jpr/article/56/5/650/8365350?login=false
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/01/can-nonviolent-struggle-defeat-a-dictator-this-database-emphatically-says-yes/
Nonviolent protests are useful for dealing with authoritarians - it's been studied, it does work *sometimes*, sometimes they are pushed to be more violent, etc.
https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/countering-autocratization-lessons-from-the-2025-harvard-nonviolent-action-lab-summit/
It is not without problems, as a strategic option, though,
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/698924/pdf
and if the military gets involved it's often a coin-flip.
