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The Practice of Nonviolence: Teaching an Undergraduate Course in Nonviolent Communication

open access: yesJournal of Communication Pedagogy, 2019
This Best Practices article outlines 10 tips relative to teaching a course in Nonviolent Communication (NVC). It outlines suggestions for readings, activities, and projects throughout a semester-long undergraduate course.
Sharon Lauricella
doaj   +1 more source

Rhetorical Resolutions to the Tension Between Issue Ownership and Agency OR What do you do with an old social movement? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper will apply Gusfield’s theory of issue ownership to one specific social issue: domestic violence. It will briefly trace the evolution of the issue as a social problem, looking at the battered women’s movement.
Hirsch, Christine M, 9313586
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A Dangerous Idea: Nonviolence as Tactic and Philosophy

open access: yesModern Intellectual History, 2020
While some American civil rights activists professed belief in the “philosophy of nonviolence,” others declared nonviolent civil disobedience to be “a tactic rather than a philosophy.” Like many dichotomies, the tactic-versus-philosophy distinction ...
N. Slate
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Unpacking the role of in‐group bias in US public opinion on human rights violations

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Which actor identities and social and political cleavages drive public opinion on human rights violations? While in‐group bias is known to influence public responses to government abuses, the relative impact of different identity characteristics has not been directly tested.
Rebecca Cordell
wiley   +1 more source

Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

The Cowl - v.27 - n.8 - Dec 16, 1964 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1964
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 27, Number 8 - December 16, 1964.

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Racial bias in criminal sentencing: Historical evidence from Chinese railway workers in British Columbia

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Do discriminatory attitudes held in the public influence public institutions? We study this question within the context of the criminal justice system of historical British Columbia (BC). During the late 1870s and early 1880s, an influx of Chinese immigrant workers employed in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was the catalyst
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Blair Long
wiley   +1 more source

Tolstoyism in the Late-Socialist Cultural Underground: Soviet Youth in Search of Religion, Individual Autonomy and Nonviolence in the 1970s – 1980s

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2017
The 1970s in the Soviet Russia were characterized by religious revival among the members of the Soviet counterculture milieu. The young generation often opted for religious ideas and Tolstoyism served as one such option.
Gordeeva Irina
doaj   +1 more source

Child Welfare Workers' Assessments of Suspected Violence in the Context of Family Law Disputes

open access: yesChild &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Information about violence in the family can be challenging for child welfare (CW) workers to assess when parents are simultaneously involved in a family law dispute. The aim of this study is to analyse how assessments of suspected violence in the family are described in CW investigations in Sweden when the child's parents are involved in a ...
Gabriella Alner Knutsson   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Nonviolence in Africa: Reasons for Its Embrace and Later Abandonment by Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Kaunda. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Soon after taking power, three leaders of nonviolent African independence movements, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia immediately turned to violent means to suppress internal opposition.
Presbey, Gail
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