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The practice and study of civil resistance
Journal of Peace Research, 2013Abstract This article provides an overview of the practice and study of civil resistance. First, historical roots of modern civil resistance are discussed, including the emergence in the 19th century of mass-based campaigns of non-cooperation to promote nationalist and labor interests, as well as the significance of Mohandas Gandhi ...
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2021
This chapter considers civil resistance as a form of collective action that seeks to affect the political, social, or economic status quo without using violence or the threat of violence against people to do so.
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This chapter considers civil resistance as a form of collective action that seeks to affect the political, social, or economic status quo without using violence or the threat of violence against people to do so.
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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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2016
Civil resistance (also referred to as “nonviolent action,” “nonviolent struggle,” “nonviolent conflict,” and “people power,” among other terms) is a technique for waging conflict for political, economic, and/or social objectives without threats or use of physical violence.
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Civil resistance (also referred to as “nonviolent action,” “nonviolent struggle,” “nonviolent conflict,” and “people power,” among other terms) is a technique for waging conflict for political, economic, and/or social objectives without threats or use of physical violence.
Maciej Bartkowski +2 more
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The Cross and/as Civil Resistance
Theological Studies, 2023We need a nonviolent soteriology that honors scriptural and theological traditions about enemy-love, suffering, sacrifice, and satisfaction and refuses to further harm victims of violence and oppression. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence and Bernard Lonergan’s way of understanding Christ’s satisfaction by analogy with the sacrament of ...
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Decolonizing Civil Resistance*
Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 2015Western scholars dominating the field generally suggest that civil resistance struggles involve public contention with unjust states to expand political rights and civil liberties. We argue that this perspective is an example of Eurocentric universalism, which has three blind spots: it tends to ignore struggles seeking to subvert rather than join the ...
Sean Chabot, Stellan Vinthagen
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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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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 ...
Isak Svensson +4 more
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The Future of Civil Resistance
2021This chapter discusses the long-term effects of civil resistance on different societies, noting whether successful civil resistance campaigns tend to leave societies better or worse off. It explores how civil resistance campaigns have changed over the past decade, particularly with the
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