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Civil Resistance from the End of the Cold War to the 21st Century: A Historical Perspective
Nuovi autoritarismi e democrazie: diritto, istituzioni, società, 2022 Civil resistance made a significant contribution to the largely peaceful end of the Cold War and has become an increasingly important factor of post-Cold War international politics.
Carola Cerami
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Freedom, Firearms, and Civil Resistance [PDF]
The Journal of Ethics, 2021 AbstractThe claim that guns can safeguard freedom is common in US political discourse. In light of a broadly republican understanding of freedom, I evaluate this claim and its implications. The idea is usually that firearms would enable citizens to engage in revolutionary violence against a tyrannical government.
Dustin Crummett
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Geography and the outcomes of civil resistance and civil war [PDF]
Third World Quarterly, 2017 AbstractThis paper reports the results of the first cross-national examination of the impact of the geography of nonviolent contention on regime transitions. Nonviolent tactics ‘work’ in part by signalling the preferences of non-participants through the symbolism of participants, unlike violent tactics.
Charles Butcher
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Review: Merdeka: Media and the case for Papuan civil resistance
Pacific Journalism Review, 2016 Five years ago the Pacific Media Centre and Pacific Media Watch published a ‘state of media freedom report’—the first such documentation in the Pacific region—and the most devastating section was about West Papua (Perrottet & Robie, 2011, 2012).
David Robie
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Antimicrobial resistance control efforts in Africa: a survey of the role of Civil Society Organisations [PDF]
Global Health Action, 2021 Jessica Fraser +2 more
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Civil society and appearances of resistance
Antropoloji, 2010 Civil society is a social space in which people convey their political demands to oneanother and to the state. It is, besides, a political theory with too much confusionand complexity concerning the power various actors have and the rules they have ...
Çağlar Enneli
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The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics
eLife, 2022 Our current economic and political structures have an increasingly devastating impact on the Earth’s climate and ecosystems: we are facing a biospheric emergency, with catastrophic consequences for both humans and the natural world on which we depend ...
Fernando Racimo +10 more
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Relaciones Internacionales, 2022 This article’s objective is to place the modern history of Iran in relation to nonviolent struggles within the optic of the role of women within them, and to link these episodes with the feminist struggle in Iran.
Sheida Besozzi
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Kosova Anthropologica, 2023 As the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early years of the 1990’s turned violent and pitted constituent republics against one-another, an overwhelming majority of ordinary people in Kosova embraced a societal-wide movement of civil resistance to the ...
Arbër Jashari
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