Isabella Cuomo is the Director of Research and Development at Build A Movement. As a dedicated practitioner in the field of nonviolent struggle and subject matter expert in international security, her activities currently focus on how activist movements can successfully steer civil resistance transitions post-revolution to achieve sustainable democratization.
The war in Ukraine is informed by Russia’s interventions in Syria and Georgia, which boosted Putin’s confidence that brute violence is the most effective method of stifling nonviolent dissent.
