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without harming other.
d. The movement adopts technique which authorities have had little experience.
e. Neutral third party who has interest in restoring harmony is present.
f. The movement’s demand is negotiable
g. The movement’s demand involved a request for acceptance of social diversity
and equal treatment.
h. The movement seeks to veto proposed policies rather than implement new
ones.
i. The movement is large enough to organize itself for conflict.
(Brinkerhoff, White and Ortega, 1995: 308-310)
An on progress social movement used to be followed by a countermovement.
Countermovement is a category of social movement which seeks to reverse or resist changes
advocated by a social movement. Counter movements are almost always right-wing in
orientation. They seek to maintain traditional structure of status, power and values. When a
social movement could be strong enough to encounter the countermovement, the possibility to
change the condition would be raise right away.