Terms of Use

Creative Commons License

What appears on Waging Nonviolence is there to be shared. We need your help to make sure our stories of struggles for justice and peace spread as widely as possible, and republication is an important strategy for doing so. Unless otherwise noted, all content on the site falls under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

To republish WNV content, click on the CC button at the top of the story you want to republish and follow the instructions. We have four requirements to republish:

  1. For proper attribution, a note at the top of the article must be included that says the story originally appeared on Waging Nonviolence. It should include a link back to the original page where it appeared on the site. For example, at the top of a republished article, a sentence like this should be included: This article was originally published on Waging Nonviolence.
  2. Don’t sell our material or edit it, unless editing to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style.
  3. Use photos or images only if you are certain they are in the creative commons or have received permission from us.
  4. Include our Matomo tracking pixel by copy-and-pasting the HTML code for the particular story you want to republish into the article on your website. That code can be found by clicking the CC button on the story. 

Matomo pixel
We utilize this open source technology developed by Matomo, which allows us to know how much traffic stories receive off of our site. It inserts a small image beacon, or pixel, in the story that simply counts the number of page views to the story on which the code appears. This is similar to the tool used by ProPublica.

Being able to have an accurate sense of the size of the audience that our stories reach is important information, particularly when we approach funders who are always looking for ways to measure impact. This is simply an efficient way of getting basic pageview statistics quickly. We see it as a small ask from republishers for using our content free of charge.

Users will not see the pixel and it will not affect your page layout in any way. The pixel will not ever slow or break any of your web pages. It should not violate any privacy policy, because it doesn’t track anything at all about visitors — neither individually nor in the aggregate — nor does it attempt to set or read any cookies. It also doesn’t count anything on pages other than the one on which you loaded it. We will hold the pageview data Matomo collects as confidential, and we will not share it with outsiders.

If you have any questions about our republishing policy or the Matomo pixel code, feel free to reach out to us at: contact@wagingnonviolence.org.