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A Critique of Civil-Military Relations: The Case of Zimbabwe’s Praetorian Military, 1980-2008 [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Since 1980, civil-military relations in Zimbabwe have been shaped by the dominant presence of a praetorian military that enforces substantial political, social, and economic constraints, thereby undermining the constitutionalism and democratic ...
Dylan Y. Mangani , Zimkhitha Mahlungulu
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People-Powered and Non-Violent Social Movements: Forcing Gradualist Democratic Reforms in Authoritarian Societies

Frontiers in Political Science, 2022
Not all successful unarmed civil insurrections against dictatorships take place in a dramatic mass uprising with hundreds of thousands occupying central squares in the capital city.
Stephen Zunes
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Buddhism And Weapons Of Mass Destruction: An Oxymoron? [PDF]

, 2004
One of the most enduring principles of Buddhist ethics is the teaching of nonviolence (ahimsa), and the first of the five basic moral precepts is not to take the life of a sentient being.
Swearer, Donald K.
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Book Review: Indian Critiques of Gandhi [PDF]

, 2004
A review of Indian Critiques of Gandhi edited by Harold ...
Nelson, Lance E.
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Nonviolence and Religion: Creating a Post-Secular Narrative with Aldo Capitini

Social Sciences, 2018
This article argues that nonviolence is a valid framework for religions to build up a post-secular narrative. Drawing from the approach of Aldo Capitini, I claim that religions can choose nonviolence as a religious path to integrate the different ...
Roberto Baldoli
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Voices from the Margins: Discursive Nonviolence [PDF]

حقوق بشر, 2020
Violence generally monopolizes the discourse of social change. An alternative voice is that of marginalized people who confront nonviolently the danger of forfeited basic rights and need to secure rights.
Rachel Spory
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In the end… wanderlust [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2022
In the text, the author examines the concept of “violence” as a possible key term of the 20th century - primarily in the Russian experience, but also in a broader global context. “Violence” is seen by Ksenia Golubovich as something that comes to
Golubovich Ksenia
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No violencia, desobediencia civil y ejemplaridad. Una aproximación al pensamiento ético-político de Gandhi [PDF]

, 2010
This work attempts to show the intimate tie existing between the spirit of  Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolence and the practice of nonviolence as civil disobedience.
Mingo Rodríguez, Alicia María de
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“Some fleeting glimpse of utopia”. La nonviolenza e la sfida della progettualità etico-politica in Judith Butler [PDF]

S&F_scienzaefilosofia.it, 2020
“Some fleeting glimpse of utopia”. Nonviolence and the challenge of ethical-political planning in Judith Butler The thesis at the heart of this paper is that, in her latest text, The Force of Nonviolence. An Ethico-Political Bind, Judith Butler presents
CONTADINI, DIDIER ALESSIO
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The Dichotomy of "Violence-Nonviolence" In the Discourse of Islam

Дискурс Пи, 2018
The author attempts to reveal the origins of the dichotomy of violence and nonviolence in Arab-Islamic religious-philosophical thought and theology of traditional Islam.
S.V. Reznik
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