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Riots as Civil Resistance Rethinking the Dynamics of ‘Nonviolent’ Struggle
Journal of Resistance StudiesThis paper challenges the conventional dichotomy between violence and nonviolence in civil resistance studies, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of violent actions within social movements.
Benjamin S. Case
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2023
Civil resistance is a way for people—often those who have no special status or privilege—to wield power without the threat or use of violence. It consists of a range of acts of protests (e.g., mass demonstrations); noncooperation (e.g., strikes, boycotts); intervention (e.g., blockades, mass demonstrations); and the development of new relationships ...
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Civil resistance is a way for people—often those who have no special status or privilege—to wield power without the threat or use of violence. It consists of a range of acts of protests (e.g., mass demonstrations); noncooperation (e.g., strikes, boycotts); intervention (e.g., blockades, mass demonstrations); and the development of new relationships ...
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Civil Resistance Against Jihadists
2022Abstract This chapter asks why civil resistance is—sometimes—successful. A set of regression analyses based on the dataset on anti-jihadist demonstrations during the Syrian Civil War shows that protests formulating non-maximalist demands were more likely to be successful, as well as events accompanied by other protests in the spatial ...
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Peace Review
This essay examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion. Drawing from the notions of nonviolence strategy, resilience and people’s power, it illustrates how nonviolence can undermine an aggressor’s military
Felip Daza
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This essay examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion. Drawing from the notions of nonviolence strategy, resilience and people’s power, it illustrates how nonviolence can undermine an aggressor’s military
Felip Daza
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Nationalities Papers, 2020
This article analyzes women’s socio-political participation and activism within the nonviolent civil resistance movement in prewar Kosovo between 1989 and 1997, as well as the movement’s gender dynamics.
Itziar Mujika Chao
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This article analyzes women’s socio-political participation and activism within the nonviolent civil resistance movement in prewar Kosovo between 1989 and 1997, as well as the movement’s gender dynamics.
Itziar Mujika Chao
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Civil resistance against jihadists
2023Abstract In June 2014, the Islamic State seized control of Mosul, upending its institutions and unleashing sweeping changes to the lives of its citizens until their defeat in 2017. This chapter examines a specific form of civilian protective agency: civil resistance.
Isak Svensson, Alanna Smart
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Debunking the Myths Behind Nonviolent Civil Resistance
, 2020Scholars argue that nonviolence is likelier to cause political change in comparison to other strategies, including violence. This study identifies issues throughout this literature ranging from coding procedures, observational sampling, to ...
A. Anisin
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Social Ties and the Strategy of Civil Resistance
International Studies Quarterly, 2019This article examines the impact of social ties on a challenger's ability to initiate a civil resistance campaign. Recent waves of nonviolent uprisings, from the color revolutions of Eastern Europe to the Arab Spring, have sparked renewed scholarly ...
C. Thurber
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2014
Abstract Civil resistance is a form of contentious politics that eschews violent tactics and strategies in favor of nonviolent ones. Employing methods likes strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations, nonviolent activists have often defeated their adversaries, including highly repressive states.
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Abstract Civil resistance is a form of contentious politics that eschews violent tactics and strategies in favor of nonviolent ones. Employing methods likes strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations, nonviolent activists have often defeated their adversaries, including highly repressive states.
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Premchand, nationalism and civil resistance in colonial North India
Indian economic and social history review, 2019The theme of nationalism in the works of Premchand, the pre-eminent Urdu–Hindi writer of the 1920s and 1930s, not only serves as an organising principle but also constitutes a protean and contentious field of study, which has resulted in conflicting ...
Shailendra Kumar Singh
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