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[[File:No murió, La mataron. Cartel en la marcha por la desaparición de Debahni Escobar.jpg|thumb|Demonstration in [[Monterrey]], Nuevo León after the feminicide of [[Killing of Debanhi Escobar|Debanhi Escobar]].]]

 

Protests can be thought of as acts of [[cooperation]] in which numerous people cooperate by attending, and share the potential costs and risks of doing so.<ref name="Larson">{{cite journal |last1=Larson |first1=Jennifer M. |title=Networks of Conflict and Cooperation |journal=Annual Review of Political Science |date=11 May 2021 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=89–107 |doi=10.1146/annurev-polisci-041719-102523 |doi-access=free }}</ref>

Protests can take many different forms, from individual statements to mass [[Political demonstration|demonstrations]]. Protesters may organize a protest as a way of publicly making their opinions heard in an attempt to influence [[public opinion]] or government policy, or they may undertake [[direct action]] in an attempt to enact desired changes themselves.<ref>St. John Barned-Smith, "How We Rage: This Is Not Your Parents' Protest," ''Current'' (Winter 2007): 17–25.</ref> Where protests are part of a systematic and peaceful [[Nonviolence|nonviolent]] campaign to achieve a particular objective, and involve the use of pressure as well as persuasion, they go beyond mere protest and may be better described as a type of protest called [[civil resistance]] or [[nonviolent resistance]].<ref name=CivilResistance>{{cite book|first=Adam|last=Roberts|author-link=Adam Roberts (scholar)|editor-first=Timothy Garton|editor-last=Ash|editor-link=Timothy Garton Ash|title=Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-19-955201-6|pages=2–3}}</ref>