Eerhart, Daniel2024-02-262024-02-262023-10Eerhart, Daniel. 2023. "Free Speech is an Information Advantage." Semi-Annual Lesson Report: Information Advantage inPeace and Security (Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)) 28-31.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14216/1468Following the Arab Spring civil protests in 2011, there was a significant decrease in the percentage of civil resistance movements that successfully achieved their stated goals. Ensuring nations honor their citizens' free speech is essential to peaceful democratic processes. As free speech-suppressing technologies become ubiquitous, the opportunities to settle polarizing disputes below the threshold of violent armed conflict proportionally decrease. Therefore, civilian and military leaders operating within the domain of international relations must understand why the decline has occurred and give outlets to elevate citizen voices without relying upon violent armed conflict.Information AdvantageArab SpringJournal articles