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{{Short description|Organized effort to withstand a government or an occupying power}}

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A '''resistance movement''' is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an [[occupying power]] and to disrupt civil order and stability. It may seek to achieve its objectives through either the use of [[nonviolent resistance]] (sometimes called [[civil resistance]]), or the use of force, whether armed or unarmed. In many cases, as for example in the [[United States]] during the [[American Revolution]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-07-04/often-overlooked-nonviolent-roots-american-revolution|title=The often-overlooked nonviolent roots of the American Revolution |last= |first= |date=July 4, 2016|website=pri.org}}</ref> or in Norway in the Second World War, a resistance movement may employ both violent and non-violent methods, usually operating under different organizations and acting in different phases or geographical areas within a country.<ref>On the relation between military and civil resistance in occupied Norway 1940–45, see Magne Skodvin, "Norwegian Non-violent Resistance during the German Occupation", in [[Adam Roberts (scholar)|Adam Roberts]] (ed.), ''The Strategy of Civilian Defence: Non-violent Resistance to Aggression'', Faber, London, 1967, pp. 136–53. (Also published as ''Civilian Resistance as a National Defense'', Harrisburg, US: Stackpole Books, 1968; and, with a new Introduction on "Czechoslovakia and Civilian Defence", as ''Civilian Resistance as a National Defence'', Harmondsworth, UK/Baltimore, US: Penguin Books, 1969. {{ISBN|0-14-021080-6}}.)</ref>