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Understanding nonviolent resistance
Journal of Peace Research, 2013Abstract The events of the Arab Spring of 2011 have made clear the importance and potential efficacy of nonviolent resistance, as well as the field’s inability to explain the onset and outcome of major nonviolent uprisings. Until recently, conflict scholars have largely ignored nonviolent resistance.
Erica Chenoweth +1 more
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Nonviolent Resistance Research
Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 2015To introduce this special issue, I provide a brief overview of nonviolence or civil resistance research. I explain the origins and development of the field starting with its Gandhian roots, through the pragmatic Sharpian period, to the current state of empirical testing and development of nonviolence theories. I also summarize the field's main findings
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2023
This is the first study to explore the perceptions of nonviolence and violence held by International Solidarity Groups (ISGs) and Palestinians who have been collaborating in nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation since the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada in 2000.
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This is the first study to explore the perceptions of nonviolence and violence held by International Solidarity Groups (ISGs) and Palestinians who have been collaborating in nonviolent resistance against the Israeli occupation since the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada in 2000.
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Military Conscription and Nonviolent Resistance
Comparative Political Studies, 2022Nonviolent campaigns against repressive regimes often turn on the military’s decision to either defend the ruler or make common cause with the ruled. Yet surprisingly little scholarship investigates opposition expectations for the military’s likely response to mass protest. We theorize that some determinants of the military’s willingness to repress are
Matthew D. Cebul, Sharan Grewal
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East Timor's nonviolent resistance
Peace Review, 1995When people think of East Timor they usually have images of a former Portuguese backwater that glimpsed self‐determination from a brief decolonization program before plunging into a full scale civil war in August 1975. The victory of Fretilin—a coalition of political interests ranging from ‘Christian democrats’ to Maoist revolutionaries, caused the ...
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Dialogue as nonviolent resistance
2023Nonviolent resistance is often met with violent repression by the authorities, and this is due largely to the threat such resistance movements pose to a regime's rule. While suffering repression may invite outrage against the regime and encourage the public to broaden a movement's supporters, it also inevitably raises the participation costs for new ...
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2011
This chapter explores the phenomenon of internationals and Palestinians working together in resistance against the Israeli occupation during the second intifada, most notably their understandings of nonviolence and violence and how these understandings affect their coordination with one another.
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This chapter explores the phenomenon of internationals and Palestinians working together in resistance against the Israeli occupation during the second intifada, most notably their understandings of nonviolence and violence and how these understandings affect their coordination with one another.
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Power, Resistance and the Possibility of Nonviolence
Critique, 2015Against the backdrop of a powerful narrative that heaps opprobrium on political violence, the article points to situations where violent forms of resistance to power can be politically and ethically justified. The simplistic dichotomy between violent and nonviolent resistance is then called into question by outlining the violence inherent to standard ...
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Nonviolent Resistance in the Western Sahara
Peace Review, 2014In November of 2010, Moroccan news media reported on the violent riots taking place in Laayoune, the capital city of Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara.
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Nonviolent Resistance and Democratic Consolidation
2020Lambach, Daniel +4 more
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