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Communicare, 2022 The use of negotiation in hostage situations is not a new concept. As a matter of fact, it has been used worldwide since the 1970's. However, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has been training its members in the use of hostage negotiations only ...
Petra Theunissen +2 more
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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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Hope through Steadfastness: The Journey of "Holy Land Trust"
Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2013 Established in 1998, ‘Holy Land Trust’ (HLT) serves to empower the Palestinian community in Bethlehem to discover its strengths and resources to confront the present and future challenges of life under occupation.
Erin Dyer
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Lefkowitz, Disobedience and Political Authority
Politikon, 2015 This paper examines political philosopher David Lefkowitiz’s (2007) framework of public disobedience and argues that the acts of civil disobedience employed in the nonviolent Moral Monday protests held at the State Legislative building in the city of ...
Shannon Davis
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ReligionsThis paper delves into the connection between Zhuangzi’s mystical philosophy and its potential application to nonviolent resistance movements. It argues that the cultivation of inner peace, as advocated by Zhuangzi, can serve as a powerful foundation for
Na Liu
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Scholarism and Hong Kong Federation of Students: Comparative Analysis of Their Developments after the Umbrella Movement [PDF]
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2016 This article aims to examine the features of, and difficulties in, the development of Scholarism and Hong Kong Federation of Students after the Umbrella Movement (2014). This article first introduces the emergence of both organizations, aiming to provide
Benson Wai-Kwok Wong, Sanho Chung
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On consolidation: Nonviolent struggle as resource for democratic citizenship
Relaciones Internacionales, 2018 After the Colour Revolutions and the Arab Spring the research, linking nonviolent resistance (NVR) and democratisation increased drastically. Nevertheless, research focussing on the effect on democratic consolidation remains scarce.
Markus BAYER
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Development, resistance and change. A point of view from Río Negro’s steppe
Desafíos, 2012 In this paper we search the concept of nonviolent resistance inquiring a rural experience from Rio Negro´s steppe. The initiative highlights the need to recognize the context of the resistance exercise and the consideration of three aspects: the ...
Paula Gabriela Núñez, Santiago Conti
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Steps toward the establishment of dialogue in Kosovo: Experiences of the Center for non-violent resistance [PDF]
Temida, 2004 The beginning of the initiative of acquainting and rapprochement of the two sides - the Serbs and the Albanians - began by the end of 2001 in Vienna, at the initiative of the United States Peace Institute (USPI).
Đurđević Nenad
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Violent and Nonviolent Ethnic Resistance
Nationalities Papers, 2022 Why do ethnic minorities who have been cut out of power choose, in some contexts, to take up arms and, in other contexts, to take to the streets? This question might seem an obvious one to ask, and yet it has rarely been posed in quite these terms – in large part because ethnic politics research has concentrated far more on violent resistance than its ...
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